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Anne of Avonlea (1909)
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I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.
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When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.
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Anne "felt instinctively" that romance was peeping at her around a corner.
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Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
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A little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world.
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I am well in body although considerably rumpled up in spirit, thank you, ma'am,' said Anne gravely. Then aside to Marilla in an audible whisper, 'There wasn't anything startling in that, was there, Marilla?
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That's one splendid thing about such affairs — it's so lovely to look back to them.
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I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla. 'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's is like a red, red rose. Jane's is an apple blossom, pink and wholesome and sweet.' 'And our own is a white violet, with purple streaks in its heart,' finished Priscilla.
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Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not yet done with dreams and laughter and the joy of life; there were to be future summers for the little stone house; meanwhile, it could wait. And over the river in purple durance the echoes bided their time.
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I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.
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But I'd rather look like you than be pretty," she told Anne sincerely. Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting.
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Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?
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There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.
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It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.
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She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.
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There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.
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But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.
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I detest that woman more than anybody I know. She can put a whole sermon, text, comment, and application, into six words, and throw it at you like a brick.
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Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.
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You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair." — Anne Shirley
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But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
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Born:
November 30, 1874
Died:
April 24, 1942
(aged 67)
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