“As you’re evidently bent on talking you might as well talk to some purpose by telling me what you know about yourself.”
“Oh, what I know about myself isn’t really worth telling,” said Anne eagerly. “If you’ll only let me tell you what I imagine about myself you’ll think it ever so much more interesting.”
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) Canadian author
Anne of Green Gables, ch. 5 “Anne’s History” (1908)
Marilla and Anne. Full text.