So I was going to write a blog this evening about Anne of Green Gables (again), after talking with Heidi Morgan @ NRG. I was looking at quotes on IMDB for inspiration and was reminded of the insane resemblance some of the quotes have to ones in Little Women. So I decided to share some of those ridiculous similarities, ending with a funny video of perhaps the best and most surprising similarity. :)
On Relationships:
Anne Shirley: Ruby Gillis says when she grows up, she wants to have a line of beaus on a string and make them crazy for her. I'd rather have ONE in his rightful mind.
Amy March: You don't need scores of suitors. You need only one... if he's the right one.
Anne Shirley: Why do people have to grow up and marry, change?
Jo: Why must we marry at all? Why can't things just stay as they are?
On Life:
Anne Shirley: I feel as though someone's handed me the moon... and I don't exactly know what to do with it.
Beth: I'm so full of happiness, that if Father was only here, I couldn't hold one drop more.
Men Telling the Love of their Life how to Write:
Gilbert Blythe: Maybe if you just let your character speak everyday English, instead of all that highfaluting mumbo jumbo. "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.
Friedrich Bhaer: You must write from life, from the depths of your soul!
On Marriage Proposals:
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.
Laurie: I have loved you since the moment I clapped eyes on you. What could be more reasonable than to marry you?
Jo March: We'd kill each other.
And more on marriage proposals...Also known as Marriage Proposals Gone Wrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6_KQdBBbKk
Next, my favorite Amy March quotes, because she had some of the best lines in the whole movie, until she grew up and got boring. :)
Amy: He put snow on your ankle? With his own hands?
Marmee: I won't have my girls being silly about boys. To bed! Jo dear.
Amy: Everything lovely happens to Meg.
Amy: We bare our souls and tell the most appalling secrets.
Amy: We'll all grow up one day, Meg. We might as well know what we want.
Amy: I don't wanna die. I've never even been kissed. I've waited my whole to be kissed, and what if I miss it?
Laurie: I tell you what. I promise to kiss you before you die.
Amy March: We've been expectorating you for hours!
Amy March: Well, it's not like being stuck with the dreadful nose you get. One does have a choice to whom one loves.
Amy March: One periwinkle sash...Advertisements. One periwinkle sash belonging to Mr. N. Winkle has been abscondated from the wash line... which gentlemen desires any reports leading to its recovery.
And my favorite...
Amy March: Butter! Oh isn't butter divinity? Oh God thank you for this breakfast.
I'll be taking requests on which March sister or Montgomery heroine to spotlight next. :)
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