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1 " Before this war is over,' [Walter] said - or something said through his lips - 'every man and woman and child in Canada will feel it - you, Mary, will feel it - feel it to your heart's core. You will weep tears of blood over it. The Piper has come - and he will pipe until every corner of the world has heard his awful and irresistible music. It will be years before the dance of death is over - years, Mary. And in those years millions of hearts will break. "
― L.M. Montgomery , Rilla of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables, #8)
2 " The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour. "
3 " There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced. "
4 " Тело растет медленно и постоянно, но душа растет стремительно и скачками. "
5 " It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that 'this, too, will pass away. "
6 " I heard someone once say that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life. "
7 " The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr," remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. "It is the most contented sound in the world. "
8 " Our sacrifice is greater than his," cried Rilla passionately. "Our boys give only themselves. We give them. "
9 " Don't look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can't be sober and serious - everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me. "
10 " She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity. "
11 " Rilla's heart skipped a beat - or, if that be a pysiological impossibility, she thought it did. "
12 " Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are. "
13 " War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations. "
14 " Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned. "
15 " There are moments when we have real fun because, just for the moment, we don't think about things and then--we remember--and the remembering is worse than thinking of it all the time would have been. "
16 " I will keep faith, Walter," she said steadily. "I will work and teach and learn and laugh, yes, I will even laugh through all my years, because of you and because of what you gave when you followed the call. "
17 " I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter) "
18 " He had also the reputation of being a bit of a lady killer. But that probably accrued to him from his possession of a laughing, velvety voice which no girl could hear without a heartbeat, and a dangerous way of listening as if she were saying something that he had longed all his life to hear. "
19 " How wicked I was to wish that something dramatic would happen!' she thought. 'Oh, if we could only have those dear, monotonous, pleasant days back again! I would *never* grumble about them again. "
20 " I doubted God last Sunday " said Rilla "but I don't doubt Him today. Evil cannot win. Spirit is on our side and it is bound to outlast flesh. "
