#aogg quote

[gilbertsannegirl]

Outside was a fine blue night. A sparkling ribbon of moonlight garlanded the gulf. Inside the bar the harbour shone like a pavement of pearl. They stood before the door and waited—Captain Jim with his ripe, full experience, Marshall Elliott in his vigorous but empty middle life, Gilbert and Anne with their precious memories and exquisite hopes, Leslie with her record of starved years and her hopeless future. The clock on the little shelf above the fireplace struck twelve.

"Welcome, New Year," said Captain Jim, bowing low as the last stroke died away. "I wish you all the best year of your lives, mates. I reckon that whatever the New Year brings us will be the best the Great Captain has for us—and somehow or other we'll all make port in a good harbour."

L. M. Montgomery (Anne’s House of Dreams, New Year’s Eve at the Light)

[pepperpieonfire]

A-Z Challenge: Fictional characters

Anne Shirley

When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding.

[gilbertsannegirl]

She had a way of embroidering life with stars.

L. M. Montgomery (Chronicles of Avonlea, Old Man Shaw’s Girl)

[gilbertsannegirl]

Anyone who has sympathy and understanding to give has a treasure that is without money and without price.

L. M. Montgomery (Chronicles of Avonlea, Old Lady Lloyd)

[gilbertsannegirl]

“So that is how you bring up your boys,” said Gilbert with mock severity.

“Perhaps I do spoil them a little,” said Anne contritely, “but, oh, Gilbert, when I think of my own childhood before I came to Green Gables I haven’t the heart to be very strict. How hungry for love and fun I was - an unloved little drudge with never a chance to play! They do have such good times with the manse children.”

L. M. Montgomery (Rainbow Valley, An Explanation and a Dare)

[gilbertsannegirl]

It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished the story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.

L. M. Montgomery (Rainbow Valley, The House on the Hill)

[gilbertsannegirl]

“I was a whole lot frightened,” said honest Walter. “But I’m not going to be frightened any more, sir. Being frightened of things is worse than the things themselves. I’m going to ask father to take me over to Lowbridge to-morrow to get my tooth out.”

L. M. Montgomery (Rainbow Valley, A Double Victory)

[gilbertsannegirl]

Anne, who had always liked Gilbert’s merry, young-hearted mother, was grieved in secret over this. Marilla said nothing; but Mrs. Lynde gave Anne many exasperated digs about it, until fresh gossip reached that worthy lady, through the medium of Moody Spurgeon MacPherson’s mother, that Anne had another “beau” at college, who was rich and handsome and good all in one. After that Mrs. Rachel held her tongue, though she still wished in her inmost heart that Anne had accepted Gilbert.

L. M. Montgomery (Anne of the Island, A June Evening)