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I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
It is Anne's whole personality in a sentence: grateful for a month most people only walk through, and happy to say so loudly. The line has become a staple of autumn greetings and bookish calendars each October, and for fans it is the book's friendliest invitation to notice the season. Marilla's flat reply is the joke that makes it work.
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In context
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In Chapter 16, 'Diana Is Invited to Tea with Tragic Results', Anne comes dancing into the kitchen one October Saturday morning with her arms full of gorgeous maple boughs. The month at Green Gables is golden and crimson. Anne exclaims, to a stern Marilla, that she is glad to live in a world with Octobers, and that it would be terrible to skip from September straight to November. She plans to fill an old blue jug with the branches for her room. Marilla calls them messy, and a little later gives Anne permission to invite Diana to tea.
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- Project Gutenberg, Anne of Green Gables by L. M. MontgomeryChapter XVI, openingReference checked
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