Death grows friendlier as we grow older.
Desire grows by what it feeds on.
Despair is a free man—hope is a slave.
Don't give up all your romance, Anne, he whispered shyly, a little bit is a good thing - not too much, of course, but keep a little of it, Anne, keep a little of it.
Don't let them make anything of you but yourself, that's all.
Mrs. Spencer said that my tongue must be hung in the middle. But it isn't — it's firmly fastened at one end.
She said that everything had colour in her thought; the months of the year ran through all the tints of the spectrum, the days of the week were arrayed as Solomon in his glory, morning was golden, noo...
War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.
Miss Cornelia snipped her thread off as viciously as if, Nero-like, she was severing the neck of mankind by the stroke.
Folks say I've never been quite right since - but they only say that because I'm a poet, and because nothing ever worries me. Poets are so rare in Blair Water folks don't understand them, and most peo...
You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.
I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.
Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary.' Oh,
My pen shall heal, not hurt.
That water looks as if it was smiling at me
Rilla's heart skipped a beat - or, if that be a pysiological impossibility, she thought it did.
I'm afraid you'll find out all too soon that life's a melancholy business.
The little birds sang as if it were The one day of summer in all the year.
It is not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't
But is there not something strange about any room that has been occupied through generations? Death has lurked in it…love has been rosy red in it…births have been here…all the passions…all the hopes....
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