Anne Shirley

"We must have ambitions or life will be a dull, uninteresting thing."

"Education isn't everything, but it's a great deal."

"I want to do great things and be distinguished."

"People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is."

"Isn't it delightful to have ambitions?"

"I felt as though I had a lot of bad blood in me."

"I'm trying to be good and noble, but it's much harder than it sounds."

"I think perhaps we could see each other sometimes after we grow up."

"I wish I were something else than what I am."

"I hate having my work criticized, even if it is deserved."

"It would be terrible to have to live in a world without any hope."

"I can't bear to think my story is going to end."

"I'm afraid I've done something wrong in some obscure way."

"If we couldn't laugh we should all go insane."

"I think I must be a very wicked girl, but I can't help it."

"I like stories to end happily."

"One really can't stay angry with a person who is making such a beautiful apology."

"It's lovely to have somebody to confide in."

"I'm not a bit in the mood for reading. I feel exactly as if I were a poem that nobody had ever written."

"Wouldn't it be splendid to be really wicked and do absolutely anything you wanted and make everybody else miserable?"

"I wonder how it would feel to be a really bad girl."

"I don't think it's wicked to imagine things because the Bible says we're made in God's image."

"Everything is nice when you get to know it."

"Isn't it just splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about?"

"If I can't be good, I'll at least be interesting."

"I'm going to have a new policy of thinking before I speak."

"It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will."

"I find that a lot of imagination is very useful in life."

"You must never lose an opportunity of wishing a pleasant good-morning to anyone you meet."

"I love to look on the bright side of things."