Lucy Maud
Lucy Maud
girl lying love-you
Love you! Girl, you're in the very core of my heart. I hold you there like a jewel. Didn't I promise you I'd never tell you a lie? Love you! I love you with all there is of me to love. Heart, soul, brain. Every fibre of body and spirit thrilling to the sweetness of you. There's nobody in the world for me but you, Valancy.
home mark splendid
I've had a splendid time," she concluded happily, "and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.
frightened
Being frightened of things is worse than the things themselves.
people hard adulthood
It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up ...
running morning autumn
It was October again ... a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the valleys were filled with delicate mists as if the spirit of autumn had poured them in for the sun to drain - amethyst, pearl, silver, rose, and smoke-blue. The dews were so heavy that the fields glistened like cloth of silver and there were such heaps of rustling leaves in the hollows of many-stemmed woods to run crisply through.
thinking people worry
most people worry so much, they think you're not right if you don't worry.
love-is understanding common
To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!
trouble interest rate
let's not borrow trouble. The rate of interest is too high.
tree whispering maple
Maples are such sociable trees ... They're always rustling and whispering to you.
years tree matter
trees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. No matter how much you like them at the start you are sure to like them much better further on, and best of all when you have known them for years and enjoyed intercourse with them in all seasons.
two curves tree
Trees have as much individuality as human beings. Not even two spruces are alike. There is always some kink or curve or bend of bough to single each one out from its fellows.
spring impossible seems
Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.
things-in-life littles little-things
the little things in life often make more trouble than the big things.
two people wonder
I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial.