Anne of Green Gables

"I just want to be myself, the Anne who is me and not some reflection."

"You may have the sympathy and the friendship of everyone, but that does not give you the right to expect their agreement."

"There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person."

"Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think."

"I'm not a bit in a hurry to get married. It's nice to have accomplishments and be independent."

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

"I'm so thankful that I'm not beautiful. It would be such a responsibility."

"The future is a blank page."

"I wonder if it's possible to like a person more as time goes on."

"I'm not a bit in love with Gilbert and that's the bottom of it."

"People laugh at me because I use big words. But if the big words say what I want to say, why shouldn't I use them?"

"Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing."

"I feel as if I'm in a book and the book is a nice one."

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

"To despise a man does not exclude loving him—indeed I think it sharpens one's love sometimes."

"I'm afraid of wasting my life."

"Marilla, I've been thinking about it and I've decided that I'll be a model girl and cause you no more trouble."

"There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person."

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

"Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think."

"I dream my painting into being."

"Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or into the deep woods, and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky, and then I'd feel a prayer."

"I think I'm going to have a splendid time in life. Even if the trees in it aren't quite what I always imagined they would be."

"You may bully me if you like. I can't fight back. But I won't beg pardon for something I didn't do."

"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive—it's such an interesting world."

"I'm so glad I'm a girl. But if I couldn't be a girl I think I'd like to be a pirate."

"I guess I'm not pure and good like some girls I know."

"I think I could forgive anything of anybody if I only knew the truth about them."

"One can't be very wicked when one has red hair."

"I believe things are going to improve."