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L.M. Montgomery _ Anne of Windy Poplars
You talk in the language of the violets.
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L.M. Montgomery _ Anne of Windy Poplars
Never, if you can help it, be the bringer of ill news,
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L.M. Montgomery _ Anne of Windy Poplars
It's lovely when the dark is your friend, isn't it? When you turn on the light, it makes the dark your enemy... and it glowers in at you resentfully.
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L.M. Montgomery _ Anne of Windy Poplars
It's nice to be needed
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L.M. Montgomery _ Anne of Windy Poplars
There's all the difference in the world, you know, between being inside looking out and outside looking in.
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L.M. Montgomery _ Anne of Windy Poplars
It was really dreadful to be different from other people...and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.
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L.M. Montgomery _ Anne of Windy Poplars
Above all she wanted to make him speak. She felt instinctively that nothing in the world would punish him so much as to be tricked into speaking when he was determined not to. Suppose she got up and deliberately smashed that huge, hideous, old-fashioned vase on the table in the corner … an ornate thing covered with wreaths of roses and leaves which it was most difficult to dust but which must be kept immaculately clean. Anne knew that the whole family hated it, but Cyrus Taylor would not hear of having it banished to the attic, because it had been his mother's. Anne thought she would do it fearlessly if she really believed that it would make Cyrus explode into vocal anger. Why
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L.M. Montgomery _ Anne of Windy Poplars
Seems to me you must always have been afraid to be young. It takes courage, I can tell you that.
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L.M. Montgomery _ Anne of Windy Poplars
It really was dreadful to be so different from other people... and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were being strayed from another star.
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L.M. Montgomery _ Anne of Windy Poplars
Nobody is ever to old to dream. And dreams never grow old.
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L.M. Montgomery _ Anne of Windy Poplars
Have you ever noticed how many different silences there are, Gilbert? The silence of the woods...of the shore...of the meadows...of the night...of the summer afternoon. All different because all the undertones that thread are different. I'm sure if I were totally blind and insensitive to heat and cold I could easily tell just where I was by the quality of the silence about me.
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L.M. Montgomery _ Anne of Windy Poplars
Again Anne shivered. How terrible … sitting opposite each other at table … lying down beside each other at night … going to church with their babies to be christened … and hating each other through it all! Yet they must have loved to begin with. Was it possible she and Gilbert could ever … nonsense! The Pringles were getting on her nerves. "Handsome
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