“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will."

Anne Shirley is one of those characters that will stick with me forever. I absolutely fell in love with her. I fell in love with Green Gables and Avonlea. Look, my heart is just so full of love and emotion for this book.

“Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?”

I don't know why it took me so long to read this book. I honestly have no excuse but I really regret it.

This book follows Anne, a spunky orphan with a very impressive scope for imagination. She has a habit of making mistakes (but never making them twice!). At Green Gables she meets numerous different people, all who have a lasting impacting on her. We have Matthew Cuthbert, the shy and timid man who has a soft spot for our favorite redhead. Marilla, his sister, likes to pretend she doesn't have a soft soft for Anne but...she does. They become her family.

Diana Berry also becomes Anne's family. Well actually her kindred spirit.

“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.”

There's also Gilbert, Anne's "enemy-turned-wink-wink-nudge-in-a-few-years-yeah-just-because-i-didn't-read-until-now-doesn't-mean-i-don't-know-what-happens".

There's so much I want to say but I honestly can't put my thoughts into words at the moment. I just love this book with my whole heart. It's easily in my top five.

I know many don't like it due to the fact that nothing really happens and Anne is "annoying" but I didn't think so. In fact I loved that nothing happened. It was character driven and I ADORED IT! Reading this book made me all fuzzy inside. It felt like my childhood. This book felt like getting a hug. I'm just happy okay. And also sad because angst. But mainly happy.

“Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?But am I talking too much? People are always telling me I do. Would you rather I didn't talk? If you say so I'll stop. I can STOP when I make up my mind to it, although it's difficult.”

This book will always have a special place in my heart. Forever

“Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive–it’s such an interesting world. It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we know all about everything would it?”

“I can’t. I’m in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?”

“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.”

“Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.”

“It has always seemed to me, ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, i was very near to a kingdom of ideal beauty. Between it and me hung only a thin veil. I could never draw it quite aside, but sometimes a wind fluttered it and I caught a glimpse of the enchanting realms beyond-only a glimpse-but those glimpses have always made life worthwhile.”

“That’s the worst of growing up, and I’m beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don’t seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.”

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

“Look at that sea, girls–all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn’t enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.”

“Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,’ she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. ‘What nice dreams they must have!”