Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Avonlea →
She was sitting there waiting for something or somebody and, since sitting and waiting was the only thing to do just then, she sat and waited with all her might and main.(Page 15, the first time we meet Anne)
I didn't expect to like this novel so much, but little Anne won me over too! She is adorable from her first appearance, with the sentence I reported above!
I also really liked the author's style, she's really nice and fun! She's very ironic, and very good at characterization: for example, even if it's only in writing, you could feel this little girl full of energy and passion when Anne was speaking!
This book intrigued me, amused me, moved me, and left me very curious to continue with the adventures of Anne of Green Gables!
Quotes
Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies' eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place [...].
[incipit]
A child of about eleven, garbed in a very short, very tight, very ugly dress of yellowish-gray wincey. She wore a faded brown sailor hat and beneath the hat, extending down her back, were two braids of very thick, decidedly red hair. Her face was small, white and thin, also much freckled; her mouth was large and so were her eyes, which looked green in some lights and moods and gray in others.
(Page 16)
No commonplace soul inhabited the body of this stray woman-child.
(Page 16)
Well, that is one of the things to find out sometime. 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.
Anne
(Page 19)
I've made up my mind to enjoy this drive. It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
Anne
(Page 39)
You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair.
Anne
(Page 51)
Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or into the deep, deep, woods, and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just FEEL a prayer.
Anne
(Page 51)
Please let me stay at Green Gables; and please let me be good-looking when I grow up. I remain,
Yours respectfully, Anne Shirley.
La fine della preghiera di Anne
(Page 52)
When I make up my mind to do a thing it stays made up.
Anne
(Page 64)
I guess ice cream is one of those things that are beyond imagination.
Anne
(Page 90)
Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them. You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.
Anne
(Page 90)
I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it?
Anne
(Page 114)
Marilla: Bedrooms were made to sleep in.
Anne: Oh, and dream in too, Marilla. And you know one can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.
(Page 114)
One can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?
Anne
(Page 130)
"It was my idea, Marilla."
"I'll warrant you it was," said Marilla emphatically.
(Page 140)
I've made up my mind to stay simply for the sake of getting better acquainted with that Anne-girl. She amuses me, and at my time of life an amusing person is a rarity.
Miss Barry
(Page 150)
Remember, you Anne-girl, when you come to town you're to visit me and I'll put you in my very sparest spare-room bed to sleep.
Miss Barry
(Page 150)
There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.
Anne
(Page 152)
"She said we could ask her any question we liked and I asked ever so many. I'm good at asking questions, Marilla."
"I believe you" was Marilla's emphatic comment.
(Page 161)
Marilla had almost begun to despair of ever fashioning this waif of the world into her model little girl of demure manners and prim deportment. Neither would she have believed that she really liked Anne much better as she was.
(Page 169)
At that moment Marilla had a revelation. In the sudden stab of fear that pierced her very heart she realized what Anne had come to mean to her. She would have admitted that she liked Anne—nay, that she was very fond of Anne. But now she knew as she hurried wildly down the slope that Anne was dearer to her than anything else on earth.
(Page 175)
That is one of the advantages of being thirteen. You know so much more than you did when you were only twelve.
Anne
(Page 195)
"As for your chatter, I don't know that I mind it—I've got so used to it."
Which was Marilla's way of saying that she liked to hear it.
(Page 205)
There are so many things in this room and all so splendid that there is no scope for imagination. That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.
Anne
(Page 217)
Why can't women be ministers, Marilla?
[...]
But I don't see why. I think women would make splendid ministers.
Anne
(Page 234)
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