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. ~Aunt Josephine to Anne in Anne Of Green Gables
L.M. MontgomeryTag: love
People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't.
L.M. MontgomeryTag: change
I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.
L.M. MontgomeryTag: anne-of-green-gables
Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?
L.M. MontgomeryWhen twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.
L.M. MontgomeryTag: friendship friends together true-friends together-in-spirit
For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won.
L.M. MontgomeryAunt Ruth looked at the unlucky pair.
"What are you doing here?" she asked Perry.
Stovepipe Town made a mistake.
"Oh, looking for a round square," said Perry off-handedly, his eyes suddenly becoming limpid with mischief and lawless roguery.
Tag: knaves literarycrushes
Perhaps she had not succeeded in 'inspiring' any wonderful ambitions in her pupils, but she had taught them, more by her own sweet personality than by all her careful precepts, that it was good and necessary in the years that were before them to live their lives finely and graciously, holding fast to truth and courtesy and kindness, keeping aloof from all that savoured of falsehood and meanness and vulgarity. They were, perhaps, all unconscious of having learned such lessons; but they would remember and practice them long after they had forgotten the capital of Afghanistan and the dates of the Wars of the Roses.
L.M. MontgomeryI wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial," said Anne, rather scornfully. "Nobody would expect two blacksmiths to be violently attracted toward each other merely because they were both blacksmiths.
L.M. MontgomeryTag: writers
You're not eating anything," said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed.
I can't. I'm in the depths of despair. Can you eat when
you are in the depths of despair?"
I've never been in the depths of despair, so I can't say," responded Marilla.
Weren't you? Well, did you ever try to IMAGINE you were in
the depths of despair?"
No, I didn't."
Then I don't think you can understand what it's like. It's very uncomfortable a feeling indeed.
Tag: humor anne-of-green-gables
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