Some of us can recall the exact time in which we reached certain milestones on life’s road. The wonderful hour when we passed from childhood to girlhood, the enchanted, beautiful-or perhaps the shattering and horrible-hour when girlhood was suddenly womanhood. The chilling hour when we faced the fact that youth was definitely behind us, the peaceful, sorrowful hour of the realization of age.
- L.M. Montgomery (via itsyourwords)
I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
- L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (via bmmn)
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
- ― Anne Shirley, Anne of the Island (via ohkellynicole)
Gilbert Blythe wasn’t used to putting himself out to make a girl look at him and meeting with failure. She should look at him, that redhaired Shirley girl with the little pointed chin and the big eyes that weren’t like the eyes of any other girl in Avonlea school.
- Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (via because-im-clever)

One of the greatest moments in literary history.