Morning at Green Gables
There was scope for imagination here.
Why it was chosen
A place can feel generous before it has given anything at all. Imagination recognizes room to breathe before the heart knows it is home.
Selected Passages
Anne of Green Gables selected passages.
These sentences were chosen for Today's Passage: lines worth reading slowly, returning to, and turning into copywork.
From Today's Passage
Sentences selected with care.
A Concert, a Catastrophe, and a Confession
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think.
Why it was chosen
Finding a kindred spirit can make loneliness seem less permanent. The world becomes gentler when one heart recognizes another.
Marilla Cuthbert Is Surprised
I’m in the depths of despair.
Why it was chosen
Despair may be theatrical and still be real. A wounded child exaggerates because ordinary words are too small for the feeling.
A Tempest in the School Teapot
“Isn’t it good just to be alive on a day like this?
Why it was chosen
Joy can return quickly to a heart trained in wonder. Even after embarrassment, the world may still feel too alive to resent for long.
Matthew Cuthbert Is Surprised
You see, I’ve never had a real home since I can remember.
Why it was chosen
The ache for home is different when one has never truly had one. Belonging becomes precious because it has always been uncertain.
The Bend in the Road
Nothing could be worse than giving up Green Gables—nothing could hurt me more.
Why it was chosen
A place becomes home when losing it would hurt. Belonging reveals itself in the fear of being torn away.
Matthew Cuthbert Is Surprised
It just makes me feel glad to be alive—it’s such an interesting world.
Why it was chosen
Gladness can be a form of resilience. A neglected heart may still meet the world as if it were full of gifts.
The Hotel Concert
She would not fail before Gilbert Blythe—he should never be able to laugh at her, never, never!
Why it was chosen
Pride can be a shield for a young heart trying not to be laughed at. The wish to prove oneself often hides a deeper wish to be seen.
The Reaper Whose Name Is Death
I don’t know what I’d do if you weren’t here—if you’d never come.
Why it was chosen
Grief reveals how deeply love has made a place into home. The fear is not only losing a person, but losing the life their love made possible.
Morning at Green Gables
I thought I’d have so many things to love and nothing to hinder me.
Why it was chosen
A heart starved for affection may arrive ready to love everything. Abundance can overwhelm when one has lived too long without it.
Anne’s Bringing-up Is Begun
Next to being beautiful oneself—and that’s impossible in my case—it would be best to have a beautiful bosom friend.
Why it was chosen
To be chosen by a friend can feel like another kind of beauty. The heart often longs less to be admired than to be known.
The Bend in the Road
I was tickled to death when Thomas came home and told me.
Why it was chosen
Being wanted can feel miraculous to someone used to being passed along. Even a mistake may resemble grace when it leads toward home.
Matthew Cuthbert Is Surprised
I can’t feel exactly perfectly happy because—well, what color would you call this?
Why it was chosen
The wish to be beautiful is funny and painful at once. It often comes from wanting the world to look kindly, just once.
Marilla Cuthbert Is Surprised
I’ve always imagined that my name was Cordelia—at least, I always have of late years.
Why it was chosen
An imagined name gives dignity before the world offers any. The self sometimes survives by secretly calling itself something finer.
Anne’s Bringing-up Is Begun
I hope she will, and I shall love her very much.
Why it was chosen
Hope reaches toward a friend before friendship has fully begun. Love sometimes arrives early and waits for reality to catch up.
A New Interest in Life
When you look at it remember Your true friend, Diana Barry.
Why it was chosen
A keepsake can hold friendship steady across distance. Small objects become precious when they carry the warmth of someone absent.
A New Interest in Life
Even although we meet as strangers now I still love her with an inextinguishable love.
Why it was chosen
Some loves survive even when people meet as strangers again. Distance can change a relationship without extinguishing what once made it sacred.
Matthew Cuthbert Is Surprised
I always say good night to the things I love, just as I would to people.
Why it was chosen
To love a place is to make even its objects companionable. Imagination turns the world into someone worth saying good night to.
Morning at Green Gables
You wouldn’t like to be called nothing but a woman all the time.
Why it was chosen
No one wants to be reduced to a category before becoming a person. A name, a self, and a story matter more than a role.
Anne’s Bringing-up Is Begun
I wonder if Diana is to be my bosom friend.
Why it was chosen
Friendship can be imagined so vividly that it seems to arrive before the friend does. Loneliness often rehearses love in advance.
Anne’s Impressions of Sunday-school
I shall expect you to tell me the text when you come home.
Why it was chosen
Ordinary duties can feel different when they belong to a home. Being expected back is one of belonging’s quiet gifts.
Diana Is Invited to Tea with Tragic Results
You know I never use that except for the minister or the Aids.
Why it was chosen
Learning a home includes learning its small codes and dignities. Belonging is built from details as much as affection.
A New Interest in Life
I couldn’t love anybody as I love you.
Why it was chosen
Love can become fierce when it is tied to the first real shelter one has known. Belonging is not mild when it was once uncertain.
The Bend in the Road
Nobody could love it as you and I do—so we must keep it.
Why it was chosen
Home becomes something to protect when love has made it irreplaceable. Keeping a place can be another way of keeping faith.
An Unfortunate Lily Maid
I never think about my hair and nose now—at least, very seldom.
Why it was chosen
Growth can shift attention away from old wounds without denying they hurt. A fuller life gives the mirror less power.
Where the Brook and River Meet
There isn’t a kinder soul in Avonlea and she never shirks her share of work.
Why it was chosen
Goodness is sometimes most visible in ordinary labor. A kind soul is known by showing up, not by speaking beautifully.
The Hotel Concert
My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my dreams have that I mustn’t complain.
Why it was chosen
Gratitude can grow beside disappointment. Maturity may be the ability to mourn one dream without forgetting the others that came true.
Morning at Green Gables
I shall always like to remember that there is a brook at Green Gables even if I never see it again.
Why it was chosen
A beloved place can remain present through one remembered detail. Memory keeps home alive when distance tries to take it away.
A New Interest in Life
Somehow, little dream girls are not satisfying after a real friend.
Why it was chosen
Imagined companions can protect a lonely heart for a while. But real friendship brings a warmth no dream can fully replace.
Anne’s History
I’m sure I could never have lived there if I hadn’t had an imagination.
Why it was chosen
Imagination can be survival, not decoration. A lonely life may endure by making inner rooms where the world is kinder.