'Anne of Green Gables' Quotes

Anne of Green Gables is a novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The story centers around Anne Shirley, a red-headed orphan, with a wild imagination and a talent for getting into trouble. Here are a few quotes from Anne of Green Gables.

• "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. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?"
  - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  
  
• "When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does. It has a fascination of its own, that bend, Marilla."
  - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  
  
• "I'm not a bit changed--not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real ME--back here--is just the same."
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• "Marilla, isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?"
  - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  
  
• "There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting."
  - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  
  
• "It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?"
  - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  
  
• "And people laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?"
  - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  
  
• "It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?"
  - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  
  
• "You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair... People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is."
  - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  
  
• "The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them."
  - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  
  
• "The goblins of her fancy lurked in every shadow about her, reaching out their cold, fleshless hands to grasp the terrified small girl who had called them into being."
  - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  
  
• "Mrs. Lynde says that sound doctrine in the man and good housekeeping in the woman make an ideal combination for a minister's family."
  - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  
  
• "Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds."
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• "Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing."
  - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
  
  
• "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, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement."
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• "Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it."
  - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables