All of these quotes are by L. M. Montgomery.
"What a splendid day!... I pity people who aren't born yet for missing it.
They may have good days, of course, but they can never have this one." -
Anne of Green Gables
"Good friends are always together in spirit" - Anne of Green Gables
"I'd rather walk calmly along and do without the flying and the thud"
-Marilla Cuthburt Anne of Green Gables
"'I'm just tired of everything. . .even of the echoes. There is nothing
in my life but echoes. . .echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful
and mocking. Oh Anne, it's horrid of me to talk like this when I have company.
It's just that I'm getting old and it doesn't agree with me. I know I'll be fearfully
cranky by the time I'm sixty.'" - Anne of Avonlea
"March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing
days that were crisp and golden tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight
which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine." - Anne of the
Island
"Yet just before she left Patty's Place for Convocation she flung Roy's
violets aside and put Gilbert's lilies-of-the-valley in their place. She could
not have told why she did it. Somehow, old Avonlea days and dreams and friendships
seemed very close to her in this attainment of her long-cherished ambitions...Only
her old friend's flowers seemed to belong to this fruition of old-blossoming
hopes which he had once shared." - Anne of the Island
""Have you any unfulfilled dreams, Anne?" asked Gilbert.
Something in his tone -- something she had not heard since that miserable evening
in the orchard at Patty's Place -- made Anne's heart beat wildly. But she made
answer lightly.
"Of course. Everybody has. It wouldn't do for us to have all our dreams
fulfilled. We would be as good as dead if we had nothing left to dream about." -
Anne of the Island
"Anne's convalescence was long, and made bitter for her by many things.
The bloom and sunshine of the Four Winds world grated harshly on her; and yet,
when the rain fell heavily, she pictured it beating so mercilessly down on that
little grave across the harbor; and when the wind blew around the eaves she heard
sad voices in it she had never heard before." - Anne's House of Dreams
"Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers!
God knew what He was about when He made you.'"- Anne's House of Dreams
"The shadow of the Great Conflict had not yet made felt any forerunner of
its chill. The lads who were to fight, and perhaps fall, on the fields of France
and Flanders, Gallipoli and Palestine, were still roguish schoolboys with a fair
life in prospect before them: the girls whose hearts were to be wrung were yet
fair little maidens a-star with hopes and dreams." - Rainbow Valley
"Rilla, the Piper will pipe me 'west' tomorrow. I feel sure of this. And
Rilla, I'm not afraid. When you hear the news, remember that. I've won my own
freedom here freedom from all fear. I shall never be afraid of anything again not
of death nor of life, if after all, I am to go on living." - Walter Blythe, Rilla
of Ingleside
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