Can anyone help me find a quote (possibly from one of the Anne books by LM Montgomery)

[Violetcove]

Google has not helped.

I’m sure that the main character goes into the bedroom when the children are sleeping and she thinks of her love for them and how they aren’t really hers … they will grow … but it says something like they are loaned to her for a few years yet.

Anyone know?

She stooped repentantly, gloatingly over them. They were still hers . . . wholly hers, to mother and love and protect. They still came to her with every love and grief of their little hearts. For a few years longer they would be hers . . . and then? Anne shivered. Motherhood was very sweet . . . but very terrible.

That one?

I think it is although I remember it as ‘gentler’ somehow but I am positive it is that one. Which book? Thanks so much for finding it for me

Anne of Ingleside

They were all growing so fast. In just a few short years they would be all young men and women . . . youth tiptoe . . . expectant . . . a-star with its sweet wild dreams . . . little ships sailing out of safe harbour to unknown ports. The boys would go away to their life work and the girls . . . ah, the mist-veiled forms of beautiful brides might be seen coming down the old stairs at Ingleside. But they would be still hers for a few years yet . . . hers to love and guide . . . to sing the songs that so many mothers had sung. Hers . . . and Gilbert's.

Or there’s this one. Same book