Anne with an E (TV Series)

Your Will Shall Decide Your Destiny (2017)

Amybeth McNulty: Anne Shirley

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• Anne Shirley : My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes

• Anne Shirley : "If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, but your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends." I love Jane Eyre, don't you?

  Mrs. Spencer : I never met her.

  Anne Shirley : I'm glad you've woken. I have so many more questions for you about Green Gables.

  Mrs. Spencer : I'm sure you do.

• Anne Shirley : [apologizing for her retaliatory rant calling the woman fat and clumsy and without imagination]  Oh, Mrs. Lynde, I am so extremely sorry! I could never express my sorrow, no, not even if I used up a whole dictionary. I behaved terribly to you, and I've disgraced my dear friends the Cuthberts, who may let me stay at Green Gables even though I'm not a boy! I am a dreadfully wicked and ungrateful girl, and I deserve to be punished and cast out by respectable society forever! It was awful of me to fly into a temper because you told me the truth. And it was the truth. Every word you said was true. My hair is red and I am freckled and skinny and ugly! Now, what I said to you was true, too, but I shouldn't have said it! Oh, Mrs. Lynde, please, please say you can forgive me! If you refuse, oh, it'll be a lifelong sorrow on a poor little orphan girl. Please say you forgive me, Mrs. Lynde!

  Rachel Lynde : There, there. Get up, child. Of course I forgive you. I guess I was a little hard on you, but I'm just an outspoken person. You mustn't mind me, that's what I say.

  Anne Shirley : Thank you for your kind consideration. I look forward to never minding what you say again.

  Rachel Lynde : Indeed.

• Anne Shirley : [waiting at train station]  I'm very glad to see you. I was beginning to be afraid that you weren't coming and I was imagining all the things that might have happened to prevent you. I'd made up my mind that if you didn't come for me, I'd go down the tracks to that big wild cherry tree and climb up into it and stay all night. I wouldn't be a bit afraid, and it would be lovely to sleep in a tree all white with bloom in the moonshine, don't you think?

  Matthew Cuthbert : [pulls his hand back from her aggressive hand shake] 

  Anne Shirley : I can also imagine that I'm already a disappointment to you. I'm aware that I'm not much to look at, but even though I'm thin, I'm very strong. I want you to know that I'm forever grateful that you're adopting me. You're a sight for sore eyes, Mr. Cuthbert.

• Anne Shirley : But just now I feel pretty nearly perfectly happy. Although I can't feel exactly perfectly happy, because, well what color would you call this?

  [holding up a braid] 

  Matthew Cuthbert : It's red isn't it?

  Anne Shirley : Yes, it's red. Now you see why I can't be perfectly happy. Nobody could who has red hair. It's my lifelong sorrow.

• Anne Shirley : I don't mean any disrespect, but couldn't I do the farm chores even though I'm a girl?

  Marilla Cuthbert : That's not the way of things and you know it.

  Anne Shirley : But couldn't I? I'm as strong as a boy, and I prefer to be outdoors instead of cooped up in a kitchen. I don't understand the conundrum. For example, what if, suddenly, there were no boys in the world, none at all.

  Marilla Cuthbert : Fiddlesticks.

  Anne Shirley : It doesn't make sense that girls aren't allowed to do farm work when girls can do anything a boy can do and more! Do you consider yourself to be delicate and incapable? Because I certainly don't.

• Anne Shirley : [her bedtime prayer]  And as for things I want, they're so numerous that it would take me a great deal of time to name them all, so I shall only mention the two most important. Please let me stay at Green Gables, please let me be good-looking when I grow up. Yours respectfully, Anne Shirley.

• Matthew Cuthbert : Well, now. We're pretty near home. Just another mile or so.

  Anne Shirley : Home. What a wonderful word.

• Anne Shirley : My name is Anne. Plain Anne.

  Marilla Cuthbert : Anne is a fine name. A sensible name.

  Anne Shirley : Could you please spell it with an E when you speak it? Anne with an E looks much more distinguished.

• Anne Shirley : I never understood it. If children are such a burden, then why do people have so many of them? Nevertheless it's a shame I'll never have the opportunity.

  Marilla Cuthbert : What do you mean?

  Anne Shirley : To be one.

• Anne Shirley : I *am* ecstatic beyond measure that I'm going to belong to you and your sister. Ecstatic!

• Anne Shirley : Do things ever give you a thrill?

  Matthew Cuthbert : Well, I don't rightly know.

  Anne Shirley : There has to be something.

  Matthew Cuthbert : Well, now, um... I suppose it kind of gives me a thrill to see those ugly white grubs that spade up in the cucumber beds.

  Anne Shirley : I suppose I can imagine that.

• Anne Shirley : [bedtime prayer]  So please, do not doubt my love. And please, please let the Cuthberts decide to keep me. I realize now it's the only thing I truly want, so you don't have to worry yourself about my red hair.

  [chuckling] 

  Anne Shirley : Amen.