"Anne of Avonlea" Quotes

I'd like to add some beauty to life. I don't exactly want to make people know more... though I know that is the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.

It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine them to be endurable, but when you get into the midst of them they have a way of being quite different - a way that makes you feel you are mad and nothing is real.

I can't cheer up—I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.

I'd like to be a great many things, but to be truly graceful and beautiful will always be my dearest wish.

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are white frosts, aren't you?

I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.

I'm so glad I'm alive, but I wish I was dressed better!

It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.