Anne of Green Gables

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

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

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

"I'm sure I couldn't be wicked even if I tried."

"It's such a nice feeling to have friends you needn't be on your guard with."

"I love Avonlea, but I wonder if there isn't something more interesting to do in the world."

"I love beautiful things but I don't know how to go about getting them."

"I'm trying very hard to be good, but it is awful hard work."

"We should live more in our imaginations."

"Marilla, I have something to confess."

"I don't think it's wrong to imagine things. It helps one through the day."

"I wish I could be a boy just for once."

"I'm not a bit discouraged. When I get an idea into my head I can't get it out."

"It's ever so much nicer to be grown up."

"We should always look on the bright side of life."

"That's a dreadfully wicked thing to do, isn't it?"

"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."

"Wouldn't it be splendid if we could have all the pleasant things in life we wanted and nothing else?"

"I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as natural to me as to fly."

"There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person—if I were just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable."

"It's been my experience that the very nicest things happen to those who make the very best of the things that happen to them."

"I've learned to look on the bright side of things."

"The body is the house the spirit lives in."

"I think I've discovered the secret of perpetual youth. It is to have enthusiasms."

"I love you devotedly, you know."

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

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

"Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet."

"I've made up my mind to enjoy this beautiful day no matter what happens."

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