Thread by @avonlea_dreamer, THREAD of beautiful AWAE quotes. This took me forever but there's just [...]

THREAD of beautiful AWAE quotes. This took me forever but there's just so many inspirational and educational moments in Anne With an E.

Starting off with: "Different isn't bad. It's just not the same." -Anne
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"If you have big ideas, you've got to use big words to express them, haven't you?" -Anne

"Feminism. What an incredible word." -Mrs. Andrews

"I reckon every new idea was modern once, until it wasn't." -Matthew

"It's a big world, son. Remember that." -John Blythe

"You can get married anytime in your life, if you choose to do so. If you choose a career, you can have buy a white dress, have it made to order, and wear it whenever you want." -Josephine

"Obligation can be a prison." -Marilla

"Grief is the price you pay for love, you see. So, it's alright." -Josephine

"Which do you think she would choose? This house, or you?" -Marilla

"Sometimes you just have to let people love you, Marilla." -Anne

"How awful it would be to be in service of those who neglect you or treat you unkindly. I can imagine that it would make you feel quite small and hopeless and occasionally despairing and lacking in confidence. I wonder if those feelings ever go away." -Anne

"I can't move up. This is it for me. And there ain't nothing for me on dry land. You're a white boy. You got options." -Bash

"I love looking out at the horizon and imagining all the other places there are in the world, and all the possibilities." -Anne

"Take notes as you explore your life. It'll help you make sense of it. Keep honing those instincts. They're crucial." -Malcolm Frost

"I think broken things have such a sad beauty. After years of stories and triumph and tragedy infused into them, they can be much more romantical than new things that haven't lived at all." -Anne

"If you'd asked for my thoughts on the gold or the investment idea, I would've agreed. And then we could've been fools together." -Mrs. Barry

"I don't know how you could think that I don't have love. I have you." -Matthew

"If I go back home, I may never be able to leave."-Gilbert
"Boy, you call that a problem? Some of us ain't have no home." -worker on steamer

"A skirt is not an invitation." -Anne

"Unique means weird." -Cole
"I think it means singular and extraordinary." -Anne

"That's what you meant. By in your way, you were married." -Anne, to Josephine

"Marriage is wonderful, if love is why you marry, but perhaps you'd like something more than simply keeping a house." -Josephine

"I was raised to keep everything buttoned up inside, but she had this extraordinary range of emotions. Life had so many colors through her eyes. Painted my world forever." -Josephine

"That's the sublime thing about art. One gets to take moments of hardship and heartbreak, and channel them into something that makes a sad boy feel less alone at a party." -Sculptor

"Doesn't it just take the ending of someone's life to teach you that life is short and you only have one?" -Josephine

"We all lost Michael. And you lost Michael, and you got up every morning, and you raised me. And you will do that for Anne because you are stronger than our mother." -Matthew

"I think I learnt some things about love. It doesn't look the same for everyone, and it can come in so many forms, and how can there be anything wrong with a life if it's spent with the person you love? -Anne

"It's against the law to be like me." -Cole
"The law is wrong." -Anne

"You were supposed to start a new tradition of educated wives who think for themselves." -Mrs. Andrews

"It is not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it. And you bring so much."-Anne

"A strong woman I'm acquainted with once said that adversity can be a blessing." -Marilla

"It wasn't my choice. But folks like to judge." -Mary

"At the time, I didn't know how much I didn't know. My thinking was narrow. I understand so much more now." -Diana

"Dreamers change the world. Curious minds propel us forward." -Miss Stacy

"Tell me, and I forget. Teach me, and I remember. Involve me, and I learn." -Anne

"As someone who lived without change for the bulk of my life, and then had great change thrust upon me, I can attest that it is the only way to grow, and learn." -Marilla

"It's funny how people are so quick to point out differences when there's so many ways we're all alike." -Anne

"I've come to the happy, evolutionary opinion that I am unusual, and I embrace it." -Anne

"Doesn't current quality of life supersede future quality of life?" -Diana

"No matter what you learn, good, bad, or indifferent, know that you are so much just as you are right now." -Josephine

"Your reality is effervescent, beautiful, and it made you who you are, able to see and dream what's possible, not just what is. You're amazing because of your experiences. It's given you much empathy, and the widest mind of anyone I know." -Cole

"Caring deeply will always be the right thing." -Anne

"You brought him home. Not as a partner, or a friend, but as a brother." -Mary

"Women are not made whole by men. Women are made whole the moment they enter this world." -Anne

"Don't I as a woman even deserve to have an opinion? Don't you?"

"Now that you mention it, I can think of one smell worse than male desperation. Hypocrisy." -Prissy

"This is about men. Feeling uncomfortable with women, with modernity itself." -Miss Stacy

"This is censorship. Censorship that was sparked by small-mindedness." -Miss Stacy

"I'm loved now, but when I wasn't it didn't mean I wasn't worthy of it. No one but you is allowed to dictate what you're worth." -Anne

Freedom of Speech is a Human Right.
#renewannewithane

"We took a stand and accomplished something, despite the repercussions." -Anne

"No matter where life takes me, I now know I must be a relentless thorn in the side of those who refuse to amend the status quo." -Anne

"I believe we can fix people, save them. We just haven't figured out how." -Gilbert

"Times have changed. Go to college! Learn!" -Josephine

"Wouldn't know anything about not feeling welcome in a place." -Bash

"Love is a tricky thing. Sometimes it feels like an undeniable force that hits between the eyes and doesn't let up, other times it's malleable, questionable, its truth hidden in and amongst external obstacles and internal circumstances that have formed who you are..." -Josephine