Anne of Avonlea (1987)

Jonathan Crombie: Gilbert Blythe

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Quotes 

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

  Gilbert Blythe : Oh, you do?

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

  [whispers forlornly] 

  Gilbert Blythe : Please say yes.

  Anne Shirley : I can't. Gil, I'm so desperately sorry.

  [runs off while a heartbroken Gil looks after her] 

• Gilbert Blythe : "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.

• Gilbert Blythe : Maybe you don't think I'm good enough for you now, but I will be someday.

  Anne Shirley : No, Gil 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 wish we'd never done it.

• Gilbert Blythe : Don't get up on your high horse with me, Anne Shirley!

• Gilbert Blythe : Well, the elegant and illustrious Miss Shirley. Relaxed while seeking out ideas for her next Rollings Reliable writing assignment, I presume.

• Gilbert Blythe : [Gilbert has insulted Anne's writing]  Listen, I'm sorry. What else can I do?

  Anne Shirley : [she hits him with her basket of flowers]  Let me get a word in edgewise once in a while, before I pitch you!

• Gilbert Blythe : All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.

• Gilbert Blythe : Maybe if you just let your character speak everyday English, instead of all that highfaluting mumbo jumbo.