Anne of Avonlea [#books #reviews]

by L.M. Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables
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Rating: 9/10

"I'm nervous about a good many things," said Anne, "but I don't think there is much fear that I won't be able to talk."
And, to do her justice, there wasn't.

(Page 413)

I really enjoyed this second chapter of the Anna of Green Gables saga. The protagonist has grown up but she's still adorable. Her adventures are always very enjoyable to read, and we meet interesting new characters!

All in all a very good sequel!

Quotes

A tall, slim girl, "half-past sixteen," with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August, firmly resolved to construe so many lines of Virgil.

[incipit]

Gilbert, having tried to please both sides, succeeded, as is usual and eminently right, in pleasing neither.

(Page 314)

Anne was one of the children of light by birthright. After she had passed through a life with a smile or a word thrown across it like a gleam of sunshine the owner of that life saw it, for the time being at least, as hopeful and lovely and of good report.

(Page 338)

It does people good to have to do things they don't like... in moderation.

Anne

(Page 339)

"Anne Shirley, you're only pretending to be grown up. I believe when you're alone you're as much a little girl as you ever were."

"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."

(Page 354)

You don't know what splendid adventures I have for a little while after I go to bed in the east gable every night.

Anne

(Page 355)

"Dora is too good," said Anne. "She'd behave just as well if there wasn't a soul to tell her what to do. She was born already brought up, so she doesn't need us; and I think," concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, "that we always love best the people who need us. Davy needs us badly.

(Page 362)

Marjory White, aged ten, wanted to be a WIDOW. Questioned why, she gravely said that if you weren't married people called you an old maid, and if you were your husband bossed you; but if you were a widow there'd be no danger of either.

(Page 364)

Not failure but low aim is crime.

Non è il fallimento, ma il puntare troppo in basso che è un crimine.

Mrs. Allan

(Page 402)

"You'll probably have a good many more and worse disappointments than that before you get through life," said Marilla, who honestly thought she was making a comforting speech.

(Page 418)

When one can see stars and skies like that, little disappointments and accidents can't matter so much, can they?

Anne

(Page 419)

Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?

Anne

(Page 421)

Diana secretly thought Miss Lavendar quite as peculiar as report had pictured her. The idea of a woman of forty-five playing at having a tea party, just as if she were a little girl! But Anne of the shining eyes exclaimed joyfuly, "Oh, do YOU imagine things too?"

(Page 453)

But what is the use of being an independent old maid if you can't be silly when you want to, and when it doesn't hurt anybody?

(Page 454)

I'm so glad you're here, Anne. If you weren't I should be blue... very blue... almost navy blue.

Miss Lavendar

(Page 466)

That's the worst... or the best... of real life, Anne. It WON'T let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable... and succeeding... even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.

Miss Lavendar

(Page 468)

That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs.

Anne

(Page 478)