Anne of Green Gables

"Gilbert Blythe just walked past and made a face at me! The idea of anybody daring to insult me by making a face!"

"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."

"You've been a brick, Matthew. That's a strictly grown-up word and probably I shouldn't use it, but it's so expressive."

"I suppose you think I've been wicked to say I couldn't love you."

"I never knew what it was to have a real home until I came to Green Gables."

"There's no use in wishing for things you can't get."

"A person who can't help feeling sorry when they crumple up a piece of paper has too much sentiment."

"She's got too much imagination, that's what's the matter with her."

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

"I wish I were a boy."

"I read in a book once that a Rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it."

"The body may be in the kitchen, but the mind is miles away among the stars."

"Marilla, 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 have a dreadful temper. I know I have. It's a good thing I'm not a boy, or I'd be in the penitentiary."

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

"I daresay I was meant to be a heroine, but I'm afraid there's not much scope for it in Avonlea."

"Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it."

"Miss Stacy is a perfectly splendid teacher."

"I want to be remembered as someone who did their duty."

"Everything is romantic when it's happening."

"I don't want to be bad, but I don't want to be boringly good either."

"I'm tired of being good."

"I wonder if it's possible to like arithmetic when you've got a terrible imagination."

"I'm not only good—I'm beautiful!"

"An imagination is a very nice thing to have."

"I do think I've been a trial to you."