# Anne of Green Gables  Author:: L. M. Montgomery  ## AI-Generated Summary None ## Highlights > Oh, it seems so wonderful that I’m going to live with you and belong to you. I’ve never belonged to anybody—not really. ([Location 419](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CFPPT6V3&location=419)) > Some people are naturally good, you know, and others are not. I’m one of the others. Mrs. Lynde says I’m full of original sin. No matter how hard I try to be good I can never make such a success of it as those who are naturally good. It’s a good deal like geometry, I expect. But don’t you think the trying so hard ought to count for something? ([Location 3259](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CFPPT6V3&location=3259)) > At that moment Marilla had a revelation. In the sudden stab of fear that pierced her very heart she realized what Anne had come to mean to her. She would have admitted that she liked Anne—nay, that she was very fond of Anne. But now she knew as she hurried wildly down the slope that Anne was dearer to her than anything else on earth. ([Location 3338](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CFPPT6V3&location=3338)) > “We are rich,” said Anne staunchly. “Why, we have sixteen years to our credit, and we’re happy as queens, and we’ve all got imaginations, more or less. ([Location 4745](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CFPPT6V3&location=4745)) > “Well now, I’d rather have you than a dozen boys, Anne,” said Matthew patting her hand. “Just mind you that—rather than a dozen boys. Well now, I guess it wasn’t a boy that took the Avery scholarship, was it? It was a girl—my girl—my girl that I’m proud of.” ([Location 5045](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CFPPT6V3&location=5045))