Anne of Green Gables

"Wouldn't it be splendid if we could only see the good points of people?"

"I don't believe I was meant for a heroine."

"I suppose you'll think me awfully wicked to talk like this about your mother."

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

"It's nice to have accomplishments and be elegant, but not to have to give up all the fun of living to do it."

"I wish I were a bird and could fly away from everything."

"What a splendid thing it must be to write books."

"A person can't help their family, but they can help their friends."

"There's no use in my trying to be anything else or in people trying to make me anything different."

"I have a terrible temper. I know I have. But I never mean to say mean things."

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

"The great advantage of getting older is that you don't lose things—you just can't find them."

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

"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."

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

"I'm trying not to think of it, but that makes it all the worse."

"I feel as if I was going to burst into tears."

"That's a lovely word—ethereal. It sounds like a sigh translated into sound."

"I don't mind being looked over if I'm not looked down on."

"It's splendid to have ambitions and it's nice to have accomplishments."

"I'd rather be a success at something I love than a failure at something I hate."

"I've been trying to be good, but it's a hard task."

"We girls have got to stick together."

"The place to find things in a library is on a shelf."

"That's the trouble with growing up, there's so much to worry about."

"I have a very hard time forgiving myself."

"There's such a lot of nice things to think about."

"I felt as if my heart would break."