Anne of Green Gables

"I don't want to be a model girl. I want to be a real girl."

"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."

"I'm not a bit in a hurry to get married. I'm going to have a splendid time first."

"I don't think imagination can improve on some things."

"I could never be perfectly happy now with a tame imagination."

"I'd sooner be buried alive than be married."

"Perhaps after all that is why I like you so well—you're so different from other girls."

"I think the only way to get over it is to face the consequences of your own actions."

"I wish there was such a thing as a model boy."

"I just love pretty things, even when I know perfectly well that pretty things don't really matter."

"Don't you just feel that there's something good about it all, something that means something?"

"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."

"I believe in the supernatural because I want to."

"I'm the sort of person you could tell secrets to, because I could keep them."

"Why must people grow up and have to pay bills and have such a lot of bother?"

"But I felt that the situation was entirely beyond me."

"I just feel sure that something interesting is going to happen."

"It's simply gorgeous to see how this month just flies into poetry."

"I'm going to try to be very good, but I'm not sure I can."

"How dreadful it must be to have a real quarrel."

"When you come to think of it, it was ever so much more romantic to imagine it than to know it."

"I do think that imagination is a very valuable thing."

"Isn't it great to be ambitious?"

"I've made up my mind to give it up, but it's a pretty hard thing to do."

"I do hate to disappoint people who are really anxious to have me succeed."

"I suppose there's no use in loving anybody in this world."

"The very nicest time a boy can have is with his mother."

"I can teach almost anything if the pupil and I get along."

"I wouldn't be a bit afraid of being poor, only I'd like to be a little poor in an interesting way."

"I'm not a bit changed—not really."