Lucy Maud
Lucy Maud
wise mature young
Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.
tree
I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.
passion soul feelings
When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.
dream sweet imagination
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.
might imagine green-gables
Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.
night genius fool
As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain hidden deep in Emily’s nature—the strain of the gypsy and the poet, the genius and the fool.
names humour
She had...the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.
wind childhood glimpse
It has always seemed to me. ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, i was very near to a kingdom of ideal beauty. Between it and me hung only a thin veil. I could never draw it quite aside, but sometimes a wind fluttered it and I caught a glimpse of the enchanting realms beyond-only a glimpse-but those glimpses have always made life worthwhile.
want green-gables halls
Anne laughed. "I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you.
ambition people joy
I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.
ambition self anxiety
We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
children war sacrifice
Without shedding of blood there is no anything… Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by self-sacrifice. Our race has marked every step of its painful ascent with blood. And now torrents of it must flow again… I don’t think the war has been sent as a punishment for sin. I think it is the price humanity must pay for some blessing - some advance great enough to be worth the price which we may not live to see but which our children’s children will inherit.
motivational gumption defining
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
hair long sorrow
Red hair is my life long sorrow.