I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

This line appears in L. M. Montgomery’s novel *Anne of Green Gables* (1908), spoken by the imaginative orphan Anne Shirley soon after she arrives at Green Gables on Prince Edward Island. As Anne begins to feel the beauty of her new surroundings—especially the autumn landscape—she expresses delight that the world contains such a season at all. The remark fits Montgomery’s broader depiction of Anne’s temperament: she meets hardship with a heightened sensitivity to nature and language, turning ordinary rural scenery into a source of wonder and emotional renewal.

The quote captures Anne’s characteristic capacity for gratitude and imaginative joy. “Octobers” stands for more than a month: it evokes autumn’s color, crispness, and sense of change, suggesting that beauty and meaning are woven into the world even when life is uncertain. The plural form implies recurrence—comfort in knowing that such moments return year after year. In the novel, this sensibility becomes a quiet philosophy: attention to nature and the seasons can enlarge one’s inner life, offering consolation, hope, and a way to reframe experience through wonder rather than deprivation.