Anne of Green Gables

"There's a reek of eggs in it anyhow."

"I never can decide which would be worse—to be burned to death or to be frozen to death."

"I can't talk things over with people who wouldn't understand them."

"I feel like I want to do something splendid before I die."

"It's been my experience that your second wind comes just when you thought you couldn't go on another step."

"I think I'm a very strange girl."

"What a splendid thing it is to read about the nobility of the great deeds of the world."

"The sorrows of this world are enough without adding imaginary ones."

"I wish I could have a bosom friend."

"Everything is nicer when there are two of you."

"I'm afraid of being ordinary."

"I'm so dreadfully lonely—so very dreadfully lonely."

"I do hope I'm going to like it here."

"It's lovely to have ambitions and high ideals and all that, but plain matter-of-fact work and steady plodding is what does the trick."

"I have such a splendid memory for forgetting."

"I'll try to be as quiet as a mouse."

"I wanted to impress you and I was sure you wouldn't take much notice of me if I was just ordinary."

"Isn't it ever so much easier to be a genial friend than a foe?"

"When you are fifteen what does it matter what you wear?"

"I hate to begin a new term's lessons."

"I'm terribly ambitious, you know."

"There's such a lot to do and such a lot to think about and such a lot to be glad about."

"I feel as if I'm just waking up from a long sleep."

"I've learned to hold my tongue and I'm trying to hold my temper."

"Nothing could be quite so bad as it seems beforehand."

"I wonder if we ought to be happier if we were prettier."

"I'm going to devote myself to literature."

"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 have a dreadful temper. I know I have. How is it I haven't gotten into a real terrible row with you before this?"

"Do you know, I don't think it's any use to ask God to help us if we don't do our best too."