“What a comfort one familiar face is in a howling wilderness of strangers!”
Lucy Maud Montgomery book Anne of the Island
Source: Anne of the Island (1915), Ch. 3
Quotes from bookAnne of the Island
In the third book in L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series, Anne of the Island, our protagonist leaves her teaching work in Avonlea in order to study for her B.A. at Redmond College. Living in a boardinghouse and later with old friends from Queens, she experiences a number of misadventures, including a couple marriage proposals.
“But feeling is so different from knowing.”
Lucy Maud Montgomery book Anne of the Island
My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.
Source: Anne of the Island (1915), Ch. 2
“She found, however, that revenge hurts nobody quite so much as the one who tries to inflict it.”
Lucy Maud Montgomery book Anne of the Island
Source: Anne of the Island (1915), Ch. 2
