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Anne Shirley

"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." --Anne of Green Gables, Chapter 19

Thank you for visiting my shrine to Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maude Montgomery. While you are here, take a minute to read about my connection to Anne of Green Gables, get inspired by quotes from the books, and visit the Avonlea Graveyard to pay respects to L.M. Montgomery's dearly departed cast of characters.

Meet Anne

Green Gables and Me

We wanted a boy!

I first interacted with Anne of Green Gables through the Netflix series Anne with an E and fell instantly in love with the optimistic orphan. Since then, I have devoured the book series. I still haven't seen the 1985 miniseries, but it is on my list. This Anne obsession did not come out of nowhere as I have loved several sacchrine orphans of yesteryear, including Pollyanna, Samantha Parkington, and that other red-headed orphan, Annie.

Anne Shirley is everything I wished I could've been as a child. I wish I had half the imagination and charm this little girl has, not to mention her unrelenting optimism. What I do have is her stubbornness and vanity. I guess all I can do is try to be kind and find kindred spirits along the way.

Bosom Buddies

"What a splendid day!" said Anne, drawing a long breath. "Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it. They may have good days, of course, but they can never have this one." --Anne of Green Gables, Chapter 15

Avonlea Graveyard

"Well, that is another hope gone. 'My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.' That's a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it over to comfort myself whenever I'm disappointed in anything." --Anne of Green Gables, Chapter 5