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41 " Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne. "
― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)
42 " In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal. "
43 " I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. [....] Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more 'scope for imagination' without them. And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter. We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each other—and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now. "
44 " That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them. "
45 " There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves--so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful. "
46 " I am afraid to speak or move for the fear all this wonderful beauty will vanish just like a broken silence "
47 " I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful. "
48 " It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant… "
49 " You don't know love when you see it. You've tricked something out with your imagination that you think love, and you expect the real thing to look like that. "
50 " Long after Pacifiique's gay whistle had faded into the phantom of music and then into silence far up under the maples of Lover's Lane Anne stood under the willows, tasting the poignant sweetness of life when some great dread has been removed from it. The morning was a cup filled with mist and glamor. In the corner near her was a rich surprise of new-blown, crystal-dewed roses. The trills and trickles of song from the birds in the big tree above her seemed in perfect accord with her mood. A sentence from a very old, very true, very wonderful Book came to her lips, "Weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning. "
51 " …unwitting that those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths, and that the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply. "
52 " There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible. "
53 " Thank goodness air and salvation are still free...and so is laughter. "
54 " …the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all modes and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquillity unbroken by fickle dreams. "
55 " Nothing mattered much to me for a time there, after you told me you could never love me, Anne. There was nobody else -- there never could be anybody else for me but you. I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school. "
56 " I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me. "
57 " It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering. "
58 " never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral. "
59 " But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it? "
60 " Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself. "