“Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel” quotes

(1987)
TV Series Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel
Title Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel
Year 1987
Genre Drama, Romance, Family
Interpreted by
All actors – Marilyn Lightstone, Schuyler Grant, Rosemary Dunsmore, Kate Lynch, Geneviève Appleton, Susannah Hoffmann, Kathryn Trainor, Rosemary Radcliffe, Charmion King, Robert Collins, Morgan Chapman, Mag Ruffman
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  • “There's a book of revelations in everyone's life.”
    Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert
    [Tag:life, truth]
  • “- Gilbert Blythe: What are you thinking?
    - Anne Shirley: I'm afraid to speak or move for fear that all this wonderful beauty will just vanish... like a broken silence.”

    Jonathan Crombie - Gilbert Blythe
    Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert
    [Tag:beauty, fear, illusion]
  • "Wilt thou give up thy garter, oh fairest of the fair"? Anne, nobody speaks that way. And look at that sap Percival who sits around mooning the entire time. He never lets a girl get a word in edgewise. In real life she'd have pitched him.
    Jonathan Crombie - Gilbert Blythe
    [Tag:poetry, reality, words]
  • “- Anne Shirley: Tell me, Mr. Allen, do you dance as well as you boast?
    - Lewis Allen: Better.”

    Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert
    Dave Foley - Lewis Allen
  • “Patience has ceased to be a virtue, I want this rumpus stopped right now!”
    Patricia Hamilton - Rachel Lynde
    [Tag:patience, virtue]
  • “Anne, you have tricked something out of that imagination of yours that you call romance. Have you forgotten how he gave up the Avonlea school for you so that you could stay here with me? He picked you up everyday in his carriage so that you could study your courses together. Don't toss it away for some ridiculous ideal that doesn't exist.”
    Colleen Dewhurst - Marilla Cuthbert
  • “You set your heart too much on frivolous things and then crash down into despair when you don't get them.”

    Colleen Dewhurst - Marilla Cuthbert
  • “- Diana Barry: Oh, I'm so nervous. I know I'm going to faint, Aunt Jo.
    - Aunt Josephine Barry: Well, if you do, I'll drag you down to the rainwater hog shed and drop you in.”

    Schuyler Grant - Diana Barry
    Charmion King - Aunt Josephine Barry
  • “- Anne Shirley: Why do people have to grow up and marry, change?
    - Gilbert Blythe: Oh, you'd change. If someone ever admitted that they were head over heels for you, you'd be swept off your feet in a moment.
    - Anne Shirley: I would not, and I defy anyone who would try and make me change.”

    Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert
    Jonathan Crombie - Gilbert Blythe
    [Tag:changing, growth]
  • “- Gilbert Blythe: It'll be three years before I finish medical school. Even then there won't be any diamond sunbursts or marble halls.
    - Anne Shirley: I don't want diamond sunbursts, or marble halls. I just want you.”

    Jonathan Crombie - Gilbert Blythe
    Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert
    [Tag:love, studying, wealth]
  • “You say you like people to be frank, we'll I'm going to be frank. It's your own fault that nobody likes you. Katherine Brooke, you are nothing but prickles and stings!”
    Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert
  • “I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry.”
    Frank Converse - Morgan Harris
    [Tag:marriage]
  • “Fortunately for you, Josie, the only thing you've ever had to wear twice is a sour expression.”
    Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert
  • “Anne Shirley, I wouldn't trade you for a dozen boys.”
    Colleen Dewhurst - Marilla Cuthbert
  • “- Katherine Brooke: Now you can go through the motions of telling me how delighted you are and how I'll have a wonderful time.
    - Anne Shirley: I am delighted... but as to a wonderful time... that will depend entirely on you, Katherine.”

    Rosemary Dunsmore - Katherine Brooke
    Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert
    [Tag:enjoyment]
  • “- Gilbert Blythe: Anne, there's not going to be any wedding anymore.
    - Anne Shirley: You're gonna get well, Gil. I know you are.
    - Gilbert Blythe: I called it off. It wouldn't be fair to Christine. There would never be anyone for me but you.”

    Jonathan Crombie - Gilbert Blythe
    Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert
    [Tag:lover, marriage]
  • “- Anne Shirley: Our friendship, it won't ever be the same now. Why can't he just be sensible instead of acting like a sentimental schoolboy?
    - Marilla Cuthbert: Because he loves you.”

    Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert
    Colleen Dewhurst - Marilla Cuthbert
    [Tag:behavior, love, teens]
  • “- Mrs. Harris: Remember your manners. And don't forget to cross your ankles decently when you sit down. And don't sit in a draft, either. And don't slide down the banisters.
    - Pauline Harris: Mama!
    - Mrs. Harris: Well, you did at Nancy Pringle's wedding.
    - Pauline Harris: Mama, that was 25 years ago! What do you think I am?”

    Wendy Hiller - Mrs. Margaret Harris
    Kate Lynch - Pauline Harris
  • “- Anne Shirley: I promise I'll always be here if you need me. Good friend are always together in spirit. Let's not change Gil, let's just go on being good friends.
    - Gilbert Blythe: Friends, huh? I thought we were kindred spirits.”

    Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert
    Jonathan Crombie - Gilbert Blythe
  • “I went looking for my dreams outside of myself and discovered, it's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it.”
    Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert
  • “- Anne Shirley: You just think that you love me.
    - Gilbert Blythe: Anne, I've loved you as long as I can remember. I need you.”

    Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert
    Jonathan Crombie - Gilbert Blythe
    [Tag:love, need]
  • “- Anne Shirley: I don't want any of it to change. I wish I could just hold on to those days forever. I have a feeling things will never be the same again, will they?
    - Gilbert Blythe: I won't change, that's the least I can promise you.”

    Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert
    Jonathan Crombie - Gilbert Blythe
  • “- Anne Shirley: Babies are never common. Each one is a miracle.
    - Mrs. Harris: Well I had two of them. I didn't see much that was miraculous about either of them.”

    Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert
    Wendy Hiller - Mrs. Margaret Harris
    [Tag:children, miracle]
  • “Tears aren't lucky at weddings.”
    Charmion King - Aunt Josephine Barry
    [Tag:marriage, tears]
  • “- Anne Shirley: You're a great deal too good for me. But you want someone who'll adore you. Someone who'll be happy just to hang on your arm and build a home for you. I wouldn't.
    - Gilbert Blythe: Anne, that's not what I'm looking for at all.
    - Anne Shirley: We'll end up like two old crows fighting all the time. I know I'd be unhappy and I'd...” (continue)
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    Megan Follows - Anna Shirley Cuthbert
    Jonathan Crombie - Gilbert Blythe
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