Quotes from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“Hate is only love that has missed its way.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“The tinkles of sleigh bells among the snowy hills came like elfin chimes through the frosty air, but their music was not sweeter than the song in Anne's heart and on her lips.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“Chippy, pulling his hand from Rilla’s. Rilla”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“Well, one can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once,” said Anne gaily. “You see, I was little for fourteen years and I’ve only been grown-uppish for scarcely three. I’m sure I shall always feel like a child in the woods.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“I don’t like places or people either that haven’t any faults. I think a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“By the brook she came suddenly upon Rosemary West, who was sitting on the old pine tree. She was on her way home from Ingleside, where she had been giving the girls their music lesson. She had been lingering in Rainbow Valley quite a little time, looking across its white beauty and roaming some by-ways of dream. Judging from the expression of her face, her thoughts were pleasant ones. Perhaps the faint, occasional tinkle from the bells on the Tree Lovers brought the little lurking smile to her lips. Or perhaps it was occasioned by the consciousness that John Meredith seldom failed to spend Monday evening in the gray house on the white wind-swept hill.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“Miss Eliza was one of those people who give you the impression that life is indeed a vale of tears, and that a smile, never to speak of a laugh, is a waste of nervous energy truly reprehensible. The Andrew girls had been "girls" for fifty odd years and seemed likely to remain girls to the end of their earthly pilgrimage. Catherine, it was said, had not entirely given up hope, but Eliza, who was born a pessimist, had never had any.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“everything is foreordained and it was bound to happen anyway. But even so, it’s nice to think one was an instrument used by predestination.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“Yet he was a rather nice-looking young man, with crinkly russet eyes and crinkly red-brown hair, not to mention a chin that gave the world assurance of a chin.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“No, darling. We’ve always known each other in Tomorrow,’ I said.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“In two more years I’ll be really grown up. It’s a great comfort to think that I’ll be able to use big words then without being laughed at.” “Ruby”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“Gilbert darling, don’t let’s ever be afraid of things. It’s such dreadful slavery. Let’s be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let’s dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“No... it’s lovely here when the dark is your friend, isn’t it? When you turn on the light, it makes the dark your enemy... and it glowers in at you resentfully.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“Anne had never seen Mrs. Merrill before and never saw her again, but she always remembered her as a woman who had attained to the ultimate secret of life. You were never poor as long as you had something to love.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“The joy of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams. And there was always the bend in the road! “‘God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world,’” whispered Anne softly.  ”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“It was sad, tragic—and true! Heaven could not be what Ruby had been used to. There had been nothing in her gay, frivolous life, her shallow ideals and aspirations, to fit her for that great change, or make the life to come seem to her anything but alien and unreal and undesirable.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“Sally says they’ll fight most of their time but that they’ll be happier fighting with each other than agreeing with anybody else. But I don’t think they’ll fight... much. I think it is just misunderstanding that makes most of the trouble in the world. You and I for so long, now...”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“I don’t like reading about martyrs because they always make me feel petty and ashamed... ashamed to admit I hate to get out of bed on frosty mornings and shrink from a visit to the dentist!”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“Well, I’m glad Esme and Trix are both happy. Since my own little romance is in flower I am all the more interested in other people’s. A nice interest, you know. Not curious or malicious but just glad there’s such a lot of happiness spread about.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“Don’t give up all your romance, Anne,” he whispered shyly, “a little of it is a good thing — not too much, of course — but keep a little of it, Anne, keep a little of it.”  ”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“Those who knew Anne best felt, without realizing that they felt it, that her greatest attraction was the aura of possibility surrounding her... the power of future development that was in her. She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen. As”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“what perverted shapes thwarted love can take. Little”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em," said”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“I want to know... not just believe... that the world is round.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“You’ll just pamper Anne’s vanity, Matthew, and she’s as vain as a peacock now.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“Yet still the Piper piped and the dance of death went on.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“The trouble with Mr. Howard is that he's a leetle TOO clever. He thinks that he's bound to live up to his cleverness, and that it's smarter to thrash out some new way of getting to heaven than to go by the old track the common, ignorant folks is travelling. But”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“now another illusion has been stripped from my eyes and I feel as if there wasn't such a thing as real true friendship in the world.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

“Ellen and Norman Douglas are warming up the old soup.” “Is”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Complete Anne of Green Gables Boxed Set

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