By Alyssa Nicole
There are certain characters from literature that I’d love to befriend if they existed in real life. I found a “kindred spirit” in Anne Shirley, the optimistic, life-loving protagonist of the Green Gables series. Her enthusiasm is contagious, and her joy radiates like the rays of the sun. How I would love to picnic with her beside the “Lake of Shining Waters,” explore the beauties of “Violet Vale, ”or go strolling beneath the blossomed trees in “The White Way of Delight.” Alas, the closest I can get is through the pages of L.M Montgomery’s heartwarming series. It is fitting that Anne eventually becomes a teacher, for I have learned many lessons and have discovered a treasure trove of inspiration through her musings and words. Here are many of my favorites:
“Life’s is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it!”
“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?”
“…because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worthwhile.”
“Oh, it’s delightful to have ambitions. I’m so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them– that’s the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”
“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?”
“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
“Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it… yet.”
“The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.”
“I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I’ve never been able to believe it. I don’t believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.”
“Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”
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