16 Quotes From Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Written by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables was first published in 1908 and has since been translated into 36 languages. Montgomery was reportedly inspired by her own childhood in Prince Edward Island, and based the first story in rural Nova Scotia.
The series has an enduring appeal, with the original book selling more than 50 million copies around the world. It’s also been adapted into numerous films, television series, musicals and plays, with the latest TV adaption ‘Anne With an E’ premiering on Netflix in 2017.
Here are 16 of the best quotes from Anne of Green Gables, covering life, friendship, creativity and nature. Happy reading!
Synopsis:
“Hot-headed, strong-willed, and armed with a loose tongue, Anne Shirley is just eleven years old when she's mistakenly sent to the Cuthbert's farm at Green Gables.
The ageing siblings, Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, couldn't be more shocked when the fiery-headed Anne turns up in place of the boy they requested. Deciding to give the orphan a chance, they agree to let her stay so long as she helps with the farmwork.
Anne soon finds herself running into trouble. She takes the peaceful Avonlea community by storm, disturbing the steady rhythm of the villagers' life. Stubborn and keen to make a name for herself, Anne begins to make lifelong friends (and enemies) in this much-loved coming-of-age classic.”
Quotes About Creativity
“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?”
“It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?”
“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.”
“Don’t you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?”
Quotes About Nature
“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
“Listen to the trees talking in their sleep, she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. What nice dreams they must have!”
“It was November - the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines.”
“Dear old world, she murmured, you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”
Quotes About Life
“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
“It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.”
“But really, Marilla, one can’t stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?”
Quotes About Friendship
“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.”
“True friends are always together in spirit.”
“Diana and I are thinking seriously of promising each other that we will never marry but be nice old maids and live together forever.”
“A bosom friend—an intimate friend, you know—a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul. I've dreamed of meeting her all my life.”
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