Lucy Maud
Lucy Maud
girl years best-year
I heard someone once say that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.
book apples fire
A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.
thinking fairy courses
I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.
june cold immoral
A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing...
believe thinking dust
It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em," said Captain Jim. "When I ponder on them seeds I don't find it nowise hard to believe that we've got souls that'll live in other worlds. You couldn't hardly believe there was life in them tiny things, some no bigger than grains of dust, let alone colour and scent, if you hadn't seen the miracle, could you?
beautiful stars lying
I wonder if it will be—can be—any more beautiful than this,’ murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptured eyes of those to whom ‘home’ must always be the loveliest spot in the world, no matter what fairer lands may lie under alien stars.
hair people red
People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is.
satisfaction get-up harder
It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?
looks serious sober
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.
soulmate space soul-mate
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.
views imagination realms
How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view,
funeral stories ends
It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.
laughter air goodness
Thank goodness air and salvation are still free...and so is laughter.
girl fifteen
Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.