Anne of Green Gables
When eleven-year-old Anne Shirley arrives at Green Gables farm, she's a tornado of imagination in a pinafore: freckled, flame-haired, and utterly unapologetic about either. The Cuthberts wanted a sturdy boy to help with chores. Instead, they get a creature who talks to shadows, apologizes to her reflection, and turns every ordinary moment into something worth remembering. What follows is a summer and then a lifetime of the most exquisite disasters: dyes that turn hair green, cakes withliniment, friendships that save and wound in equal measure. Montgomery understood something essential about lonely children: that what they need isn't just a home, but someone who sees them, really sees them, wild imagination and all. This is a book about the radical act of loving someone who is too much. It endures because Anne refuses to be less than she is, and somehow, against all odds, that becomes exactly what makes her worthy of belonging.
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“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.””
— L. M. Montgomery
“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.””
— L. M. Montgomery
“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.””
— L. M. Montgomery
“True friends are always together in spirit.””
— L. M. Montgomery
“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.””
— L. M. Montgomery
“Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.””
— L. M. Montgomery
“Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.””
— L. M. Montgomery
“People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?””
— L. M. Montgomery
“There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.””
— L. M. Montgomery
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