Some of our favourite quotes from Anne of Green Gables.
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• My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes. That's a sentence I read once and I say it over to comfort myself in these times that try the soul.
• Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world can't make up for the lack of it.
• Can't you even IMAGINE you're in the depths of despair?
• I thought nothing could be as bad as red hair. Green is ten times worse.
• I don't think Mrs. Barry is a well-bred woman. I don't believe God himself would entirely meet with her approval.
• Mrs. Hammond told me that God made my hair red on purpose and I've never cared for Him since.
• Farewell, my beloved friend. Henceforth, we must be strangers living side by side... but my heart will be ever faithful to thee.
• Tomorrow is always fresh with no mistakes in it.
• I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.
• Ruby Gillis says when she grows up, she wants to have a line of beaus on a string and make them crazy for her. I'd rather have ONE in his rightful mind.
• Aunt Josephine: I like people who make me like them. Saves me so much trouble forcing myself to like them.
• Aunt Josephine: Wealth can be very empty when you don't have someone to share it with. But by the time I realized that, no one would have me... except men who wanted my money more than I did.
• As Rachel Lynde used to say, the sun will go on rising and setting whether I fail in Geometry or not. I think I'd rather it didn't go on if I failed.
• And I promise I'll never do it again. That's the one good thing about me. I never do the same wrong thing twice.
• Rachel Lynde: Mark my words, Marilla. That's the kind puts strychnine in the well.
• Rachel Lynde: Her tongue appears to be hinged in the middle, but she may turn out all right.
• Anne Shirley: Wilt thou give me a lock of thy jet-black tresses?
  Diana Barry: But I don't have any black dresses.
  Anne Shirley: Your hair.
  Diana Barry: All right.
• Anne Shirley: Oh, Marilla, you look so elegant!
  Marilla Cuthbert: You don't make important visits in kitchen clothes.
• Marilla Cuthbert: Oh, this is a fine kettle of fish.
• Marilla Cuthbert: She could talk the hind leg of a mule. Hmm, wouldn't that be a change around here.
• How would you like to have nasty things said about you? How would you like to hear that you're fat, ugly, and a sour old gossip!
• Marilla Cuthbert: Making a little wine for refreshment is far less sinful then meddling in other people's affairs!
• Miss Stacy: The truth will set you free.
• Marilla Cuthbert: Oh, stuff and nonsense.
• Miss Stacy: True friends are always together in spirit.
• This is the most tragical thing that has ever happened to me.
• Mrs. Cadbury: Tell me what you know about yourself.
  Anne Shirley: Well, it really isn't worth telling, Mrs. Cadbury... but if you let me tell you what I IMAGINE about myself you'd find it a lot more interesting.
• Anne Shirley: Can't you even IMAGINE you're in the depths of despair?
  Marilla Cuthbert: No I cannot. To despair is to turn your back on God.
• Anne Shirley: Don't you ever imagine things differently from what they are?
  Marilla Cuthbert: No.
  Anne Shirley: Oh Marilla, how much you miss.
• Diana Barry: I wish I were rich, and I could spend the whole summer at a hotel, eating ice cream and chicken salad.
  Anne Shirley: You know something, Diana? We are rich. We have sixteen years to our credit, and we both have wonderful imaginations. We should be as happy as queens.

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