20 Anne of Green Gables Quotes

I was 11 the day I picked up Anne of Green Gables for the first time at the library. It's a moment with my mom that I will remember and treasure forever. I fell in love with the world of Avonlea and all things Anne. I would come to collect my own copies of these books and I've lost count of how many times I've read them.

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Here are a few of my personal favourite quotes from this beloved series.  

• “I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
• “Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?”
• “Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?”
• “Red hair is my life long sorrow.”
• “I am well in body although considerably rumpled up in spirit, thank you, ma'am,"
• “Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?”
• “I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.”
• “If I wasn't a human girl I think I'd like to be a bee and live among the flowers.”
• “I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.”
• “What a splendid day!' said Anne, drawing a long breath. 'Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it. They may have good days, of course, but they can never have this one.”
• “Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it... yet.”
• “My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
• “Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”
• “It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.”
• “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?”
• "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.”
• “But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'.”
• “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?
• “The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.”
• “It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?”