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The collection comprises the original novel 'Anne of Green Gables', followed by 'Anne of the Island', and additional works featuring the beloved character Anne Shirley, offering a comprehensive look into her adventures and growth.
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“it doesn't take long to stay an hour.”
Source: Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books
“... we always love best the people who need us.”
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“When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.”
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“But I'd rather look like you than be pretty," she told Anne sincerely. Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting.”
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“But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.”
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“Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.”
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“It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?”
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“Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I lay me down to sleep." But she had, as I have told you, the glimmerings of a sense of humor--which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things; and it suddenly occurred to her that simple little prayer, sacred to the white-robed childhood lisping at motherly knees, was entirely unsuited to this freckled witch of a girl who knew and cared nothing about God's love, since she had never had it translated to her through the medium of human love.”
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“There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former understood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation--was reveling in the thoroughness of her abasement. Where was the wholesome punishment upon which she, Marilla, had plumed herself? Anne had turned it into a species of positive pleasure.”
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“Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.”
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“I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.”
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“I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.”
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“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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“…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.”
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“There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.”
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“It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night.”
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“People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.”
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“I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.”
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“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.”
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“She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.”
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“Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.”
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“We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.”
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“I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.”
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“I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun rise and set in the usual quiet way without much fuss over the fact. If I had to have villains at all, I'd give them a chance, Anne--I'd give them a chance. There are some terrible bad men the world, I suppose, but you'd have to go a long piece to find them...But most of us have got a little decency somewhere in us. Keep on writing, Anne.”
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“Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne.”
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“Nothing mattered much to me for a time there, after you told me you could never love me, Anne. There was nobody else -- there never could be anybody else for me but you. I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.”
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“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?”
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“It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?”
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“What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.”
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