Anne Quotes

“I love my garden, and I love working in it. To potter with green growing things, watching each day to see the dear, new sprouts come up, is like taking a hand in creation, I think. Just now my garden is like faith - the substance of things hoped for.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams, 10 Books

“But that would be terrible queer, Anne. And what would Mrs Harmon Andrews say?"
"Ah, there's the rub," sighed Anne. "There are so many things in life we cannot do because of the fear of what Mrs Harmon Andrews would say. What delightful things we might do were it not for Mrs Harmon Andrews!”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams, 10 Books

“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.' That's a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it over to comfort myself whenever I'm disappointed in anything.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne: The Green Gables Complete Collection

“Some women's intended from the start to be old maids, and I'm afraid I'm one of them, Miss Shirley, ma'am, because I've awful little patience with the men.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne: The Green Gables Complete Collection

“We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne: The Green Gables Complete Collection

“It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne: The Green Gables Complete Collection

“life still called to her with many insistent voices.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne: The Green Gables Complete Collection

“It was really dreadful to be so different from other people . . . and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star. Hazel would not have been one of the common herd for anything . . . no matter what she suffered by reason of her differentness.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne: The Green Gables Complete Collection

“I think a great deal of those dogs," she said proudly. "They are over a hundred years old, and they have sat on either side of this fireplace ever since my brother Aaron brought them from London fifty years ago. Spofford Avenue was called after my brother Aaron.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne: The Green Gables Complete Collection

“How can I be vain when I know I'm homely?" protested Anne. "I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne: The Green Gables Complete Collection

“It is all over," she informed Marilla. "I shall never have another friend. I'm really worse off than ever before, for I haven't Katie Maurice and Violetta now. And even if I had it wouldn't be the same. Somehow, little dream girls are not satisfying after a real friend. Diana and I had such an affecting farewell down by the spring. It will be sacred in my memory forever. I used the most pathetic language I could think of and said 'thou' and 'thee.' 'Thou' and 'thee' seem so much more romantic than 'you.' Diana gave me a lock of her hair and I'm going to sew it up in a little bag and wear it around my neck all my life. Please see that it is buried with me, for I don't believe I'll live very long. Perhaps when she sees me lying cold and dead before her Mrs. Barry may feel remorse for what she has done and will let Diana come to my funeral." "I don't think there is much fear of your dying of grief as long as you can talk, Anne," said Marilla unsympathetically”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne: The Green Gables Complete Collection

“Even when I am alone, I have real good company - dreams and imaginations and pretendings.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams, 10 Books

“You must excuse me, Anne. I've got a habit of being outspoken and folks mustn't mind it." "But they can't help minding it. And I don't think it's any help that it's your habit. What would you think of a person who went about sticking pins and needles into people and saying, 'Excuse me, you mustn't mind it . . . it's just a habit I've got.' You'd think he was crazy, wouldn't you?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne: The Green Gables Complete Collection

“how you going to find out about things if you don’t ask questions?”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Complete Anne of Green Gables Collection