Anne of Green Gables

"I could have been so wicked if I'd only had the opportunity."

"I'm not afraid of important people any longer."

"That is the land of scholars and I shall march into it by the gate of success."

"It's splendid to have ambitions and try to live up to them."

"I wasn't actually wicked after all."

"I prefer to imagine things the way I like them."

"I'm not a model child and never expect to be."

"After all, tomorrow is a new day, and that's one of the saddest things about this world."

"I wish to be a credit to you in the future."

"I have real, genuine troubles which nobody knows anything about."

"I didn't know I was wicked until you told me."

"I have no quarrel with people who like sombre colors in their houses, but I couldn't live in them."

"I couldn't love anybody who had a crooked nose."

"You seem to have forgotten that you've a standing invitation to Green Gables."

"I feel like a prisoner escaped from gaol."

"I do so want to be a credit to you."

"We should always try to be as agreeable as possible."

"I love pretty things, and I hate ugly things."

"I can't promise to like him. I can only promise to try."

"Gilbert Blythe just walked past and said good morning. Do you think he meant anything special by that?"

"What is the use of making mistakes if you don't profit by them?"

"I think I have a perfect horror of being wicked, but I never can seem to manage it."

"Wouldn't it be splendid to be really wicked?"

"I don't want to be good; I want to be great."

"People are put into this world for a purpose and we must find out what our purpose is and work towards it."

"I'm not a bit changed—not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out."

"What's the good of having imagination if you can't use it?"

"The trouble with you is that you're always comparing yourself with other people."

"I'm reading a perfectly splendid book. I wish I could write a book some day."

"I feel as if I could write out a whole treatise on the Aesthetic Properties of Dimples."