Quotes from Anne Shirley

We can't always take the most obvious road in life.

Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

Oh, I know I'll improve. It's just that my life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes now. That's a sentence I read once, and I say it over to comfort myself in these times that try the soul.

I just love bright red drinks!

I had the most beautiful set of theories you ever knew when I started out as a schoolma'am, but every one of them has failed me at some pinch or another.