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Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne Of Avonlea

  • Andy Hidalgohas quoted4 years ago
    “After all,” Anne had said to Marilla once, “I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”
  • syafiqahwithaQhas quoted5 years ago
    For a moment Anne’s heart fluttered queerly and for the first time her eyes faltered under Gilbert’s gaze and a rosy flush stained the paleness of her face. It was as if a veil that had hung before her inner consciousness had been lifted, giving to her view a revelation of unsuspected feelings and realities.
  • Korina Kočićhas quotedlast month
    She’ll probably be marrying Gilbert Blythe
  • Giadahas quoted6 months ago
    Gilbert wisely said nothing more; but in his silence he read the history of the next four years in the light of Anne’s remembered blush. Four years of earnest, happy work . . . and then the guerdon of a useful knowledge gained and a sweet heart won.
  • Giadahas quoted6 months ago
    dreamily. “Isn’t it beautiful to think how everything has turned out . . . how they have come together again after all the years of separation and misunderstanding?”

    “Yes, it’s beautiful,” said Gilbert, looking steadily down into Anne’s uplifted face, “but wouldn’t it have been more beautiful still, Anne, if there had been no separation or misunderstanding . . . if they had come hand in hand all the way through life, with no memories behind them but those which belonged to each other?”
  • Giadahas quoted6 months ago
    Another chapter in my life is closed,” said Anne aloud, as she locked her desk. She really felt very sad over it; but the romance in the idea of that “closed chapter” did comfort her a little.
  • b5024816769has quoted18 days ago
    for had she not, in keen remembrance of many similar snubs administered in her own early years, solemnly vowed that she would never tell any child it was too little to understand? Yet here she was doing it . . . so wide sometimes is the gulf between theory and practice.
  • b5024816769has quoted18 days ago
    But I notice Mr. Harrison doesn’t like to be pitied. Nobody does, I imagine.”
  • ft.lenehas quoted18 days ago
    “After all,” Anne had said to Marilla once, “I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”
  • ft.lenehas quoted19 days ago
    She could never forget the kind old man who had been the first to give her the love and sympathy her starved childhood had craved.
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