Anne Shirley

Character in Anne of Green Gables From: Anne of Green Gables

Protagonist; imaginative orphan girl with a gift for dramatic speech and witty observations

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"I hope I shall have good luck. I've heard that it is possible to make a kind of charm to bring good luck."
Hope
"I'm dreadfully sorry, but I was daydreaming."
Imagination
"I never can look a gift horse in the mouth."
Gratitude
"That is the worst of living in the country—you feel so slow."
Change
"I felt so ashamed and miserable, and I didn't know how I could ever make amends."
Truth
"I hate to begin a new year in the same old way."
Change
"There's such a lot of world to see and I want to see it before I get too old."
Adventure
"I'm not a bit changed—not really."
"I wouldn't be a bit afraid of being poor, only I'd like to be a little poor in an interesting way."
Money
"I can teach almost anything if the pupil and I get along."
Education
"I suppose there's no use in loving anybody in this world."
Love
"I do hate to disappoint people who are really anxious to have me succeed."
Perseverance
"I've made up my mind to give it up, but it's a pretty hard thing to do."
Patience
"Isn't it great to be ambitious?"
Motivation
"I do think that imagination is a very valuable thing."
Imagination
"When you come to think of it, it was ever so much more romantic to imagine it than to know it."
Wisdom
"How dreadful it must be to have a real quarrel."
Kindness
"I'm going to try to be very good, but I'm not sure I can."
Truth
"It's simply gorgeous to see how this month just flies into poetry."
Art
"I just feel sure that something interesting is going to happen."
Hope
"But I felt that the situation was entirely beyond me."
"Why must people grow up and have to pay bills and have such a lot of bother?"
Philosophy
"I'm the sort of person you could tell secrets to, because I could keep them."
Friendship
"I believe in the supernatural because I want to."
Faith
"I was just thinking about how quickly we grow up and how we're never as happy after we've grown up as we were when we were children."
Time
"Don't you just feel that there's something good about it all, something that means something?"
Hope
"I just love pretty things, even when I know perfectly well that pretty things don't really matter."
Beauty
"I wish there was such a thing as a model boy."
Humor
"I'd sooner be buried alive than be married."
"I could never be perfectly happy now with a tame imagination."
Creativity