Top 38 Quotes About Anne Shirley
#1. There is nothing but meetings and partings in this world - Anne Shirley
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#2. Anne Shirley, how often have I told you never to let one of those Italians in the house! I don't believe in encouraging them to come around at all.
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#3. True friends are always together in spirit. (Anne Shirley)
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#4. It wouldn't do to have all our dreams fulfilled. We would be as good as dead if we had nothing left to dream about. - Anne Shirley
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#5. Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well but there is more 'scope for the imagination without them. - Anne Shirley
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#6. All your life Davy, you'll find yourself doing things you don't want to do - Anne Shirley
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#7. Mrs. Cadbury: Tell me what you know about yourself.
Anne Shirley: Well, it really isn't worth telling, Mrs. Cadbury ... but if you let me tell you what I IMAGINE about myself you'd find it a lot more interesting.
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#8. It is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time. - Anne Shirley
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#9. Dear old world. You are very lovely and I am glad to be alive in you - Anne Shirley
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#10. Jane's stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.
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#11. I ought to grow up successfully, and I'm sure it will be my own fault if I don't. I feel it's a great responsibility because I have only one chance. If I don't grow up right I can't go back and begin over again. - Anne Shirley
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#12. I think the little things in life often cause more trouble than the big things - Anne Shirley
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#14. Having adventures comes naturally to some people. You just have a gift for them or you don't have - Anne Shirley
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#15. You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair.
- Anne Shirley
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#16. God is in heaven, all's right with the world - Anne Shirley
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#17. My future seemed to stretch before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the very best does. - Anne Shirley
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#18. Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.
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#19. Well now, I'd rather have you than a dozen boys, Anne,' said Matthew patting her hand. 'Just mind you that - rather than a dozen boys. Well now, I guess it wasn't a boy that took the Avery scholarship, was it? It was a girl - my girl - my girl that I'm proud of.
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#20. I won't say another word
not one. I know I talk too much, but I am really trying to overcome it, and although I say far too much, yet if you only knew how much I want to say and don't, you'd give me some credit for it.
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#21. Diana has only one birthday in a year. It isn't as if birthdays were common things, Marilla.
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#22. I am well in body although considerably rumpled up in spirit, thank you, ma'am,' said Anne gravely. Then aside to Marilla in an audible whisper, 'There wasn't anything startling in that, was there, Marilla?
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#23. I can't eat. I can never eat when I'm in the depths of despair.
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#26. No matter where I go or how I change, I'll always be your Anne. Anne of Green Gables.
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#27. But if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't.
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#28. Ruby Gillis says when she grows up she's going to have ever so many beaus on the string and have them all crazy about her; but I think that would be too exciting. I'd rather just have one in his right mind.
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#30. Oh, I know I'll improve. It's just that my life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes now. That's a sentence I read once, and I say it over to comfort myself in these times that try the soul.
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#31. I think you had better learn to control that imagination of yours,Anne, if you can't distinguish between what is real and what isnt.
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#32. So said Mrs. Rachel to the wild rose bushes out of the fullness of her heart; but if she could have seen the child who was waiting patiently at the Bright River station at that very moment her pity would have been still deeper and more profound.
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#33. Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have sprained my ankle. But, Marilla, I might have broken my neck. Let us look on the bright side of things.
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#34. I had the most beautiful set of theories you ever knew when I started out as a schoolma'am, but every one of them has failed me at some pinch or another.
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#35. I've been a fan of vampire fiction since way, way back - I loved Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon, Shirley Jackson, lots of great horror and paranormal fiction.
Rachel Caine
#36. Oh, Miss Shirley, can you smell the apple-blossom fragrance?" Having a nose, Anne could.
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#37. Shirley Jackson said that a confused reader is an antagonistic reader, and I live by that. It's okay to start anywhere, and to let yourself write a big sloppy overly-detailed first draft. You just jump in, knowing that the water will be cold at first, but no one is making you swim.
Anne Lamott
#38. We can't always take the most obvious road in life.
Anne Shirley
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