L.m. Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables

Quotes

• “Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big fi...”
• “...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'...”
• “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 m...”
• “Jane's stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know ...”
• “I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart...”
• “I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best ...”
• “Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
• “It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
• “The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?”
• “Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.”
• “Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.”
• “My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”