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You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.
People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.
But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?
That's one splendid thing about such affairs — it's so lovely to look back to them.
That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs.
The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?
Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne.
Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.
That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs.
I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.
Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.
I hate to lend a book I love...it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.
Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine
Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!
All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.
A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.
Wouldn't it be nice if roses could talk? I'm sure they could tell us such lovely things.
But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?
I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)
When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.
Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expect a kiss.
You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.
Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth
Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not often hidden — only ugliness and deformity.
Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.
Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.
I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.
I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful.
If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery
When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.
I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.
There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.
It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.
I don't like green Christmases. They're not green—they're just nasty faded browns and grays.
I feel as though someone's handed me the moon... and I don't exactly know what to do with it.
Don't you ever imagine things differently than what they are? Oh, Marilla, how much you miss.
But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.
That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.
There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.
At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on.
Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?
Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.