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1 " Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things? "
― L.M. Montgomery , Emily's Quest (Emily, #3)
2 " I can always get through to-day very nicely. It's to-morrow I can't live through "
3 " Don't let a three-o'clock-at-night feeling fog your soul. "
4 " I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen in halls of fancy. "
5 " Since ever the world was spinningAnd till the world shall endYou've your man in the beginningOr you have him in the end,But to have him from start to finishAnd neither nor borrow nor lendIs what all of the girls are wantingAnd none of the gods can send "
6 " Oh, I don't wonder babies always cry when they wake up in the night. So often I want to do it too. "
7 " If the bards of old the true has toldThe sirens have raven hair.But over the earth since art had birth,They paint the angels fair. "
8 " A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion. "
9 " The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did. "
10 " Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade. "
11 " Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers. "
12 " This afternoon I sat at my window and alternately wrote at my new serial and watched a couple of dear, amusing, youngish maple-trees at the foot of the garden. They whispered secrets to each other all the afternoon. They would bend together and talk earnestly for a few moments, then spring back and look at each other, throwing up their hands comically in horror and amazement over their mutual revelations. I wonder what new scandal is afoot in Treeland. "
13 " It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other. "
14 " You see," she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him. "
15 " Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays. "
16 " Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy. "
17 " An old house that had lived its life long ago and so was very quiet and wise and a little mysterious. Also a little austere, but very kind. "
18 " Such presumption," said Aunt Laura, meaning for a Dix to aspire to a Murray. "It wasn't because of his presumption I packed him off," said Emily. "It was because of the way he made love. He made a thing ugly that should have been beautiful." "I suppose you wouldn't have him because he didn't propose romantically," said Aunt Elizabeth contemptuously. "No. I think my real reason was that I felt sure he was the kind of man who would give his wife a vacuum cleaner for a Christmas present," vowed Emily. "
19 " It is hard to understand why work should be called a curse—until one remembers what bitterness forced or uncongenial labour is. But the work for which we are fitted—which we feel we are sent into the world to do—what a blessing it is and what fullness of joy it holds. "
20 " Night is beautiful when you are happy—comforting when you are in grief—terrible when you are lonely and unhappy. "
