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 In the school classroom, the children are talking critically about Anne's feminist newspaper article, which has led to severe restrictions being imposed by the old fogies on their reporting. Gilbert defends her! |
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Mrs Lynde threatens to expose the old
fogeys' role in the burning of the school
unless they agree to adding three women
to the Council Board. |
"Well, denial is your forte. Spreading news |
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 Anne: "If children are such a burden, then why do people have so many of them?" |
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Someone probably said it before me! |
Aunt Josephine: "Grief is the price we pay for love."
Me: "Death is the price we pay for Life."
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| Anne is describing the girls' lips as they discuss the (obviously gross) act of kissing, and Jane comes up with a priceless comparison.. | Jane: "I once overheard Mrs Lynde and her husband sharing a kiss. It sounded like a cow dragging its hind hoof out of a swamp."
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| The girls are discussing kissing, and indeed playing a game with the boys involving "the bottle of fate". Even Billy is playing, which is a bit of a surprise; I would have thought some of the others would have avoided him like the plague, so horrid is he. Anyway, Anne as is often the case startles them by querying why boys were always supposed to "take the initative". |
Anne: "Why must the girl wait for the boy?"
.... general shrieks: "Anne!" - "Are you mad?"
Anne: "If I wanted to kiss a boy, couldn't I just kiss him?" .... brief stunned silence .... |
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| Anne is fobidden by Diane's execrable mother to associate with Diane, and the two make a pledge in the school coat-room to remain eternal friends nonetheless. | "In the years to come your memory |
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| Anne dismisses her pine-cones for the day .... | "It's getting late, and your Princess must away to her castle." |
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| Dear Anne does lay it on a bit thick at times! Here she is apologising to the hideous Minister for lying to M&M about going to school - though as she says, she WAS going to school in a way: teaching a bunch of pine-cones in her den in the woods. The Minister was not impressed ...... | "I assure you, Minister, I am full of woe, and dismay - with a good measure of chagrin. I can only hope it pleases God to know how truly unhappy I am." | ||
Anne is talking to Marilla as the latter |
Anne: "I've made up my mind to enjoy this drive. It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy something if you make up your mind firmly that you will. Of course, you must make up your mind FIRMLY. I believe this is something you and I have in common." |
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| Anne and Gilbert are in his house where class is taking place after the school burns down. Anne has had a personal revelation about her role in life: she is going to be a force for change for the better. | "No matter where life takes me I now know that I must be a relentless thorn in the side of those who refuse to amend the status quo." | ||
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Marilla opens her heart to Anne .....
“You are a wish come true .... I never knew I was making." |
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Anne to Cole & Diana: |
"How can there be anything wrong with a life if it’s spent with a person you love?" | |
Anne to Cole: |
"It's not what the world holds for you; it's what you bring to it." | |
Anne to Marilla: |
"All we can do is our best Marilla, regardless of what we know or don’t know." | |
Anne to Gilbert: |
"Go where your passion leads you." | |
Bash's wife Mary Lacroix to Gilbert: |
"Be sure to marry for love, only for love." | |
Anne to Marilla & Matthew: |
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong." | |
Aunt Jo to Anne & Diana: |
"Marriage will be beautiful if love is the reason you’re marrying." | |
Anne: |
"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers." | |
Anne: |
"Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a day with no mistakes in it yet?" | |
Anne: |
"My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes." | |