Lucy Maud
Lucy Maud
giving feelings love-poetry
Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?
dream nice sleep
Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!
beautiful blue might
But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress — because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while…
imagination green-gables delightful
It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?
taken sunshine dancing
Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously…
talking people quiet
Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.
clothes heaven important
Heaven grant me patience! Clothes are very important," said Anne severely
summer dream spring
…the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all modes and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquillity unbroken by fickle dreams.
being-thankful goodness lm-montgomery
Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful…
interesting half language
We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
dream reality pleasant
Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.
dream real nice
Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships — and nice, jolly little times with people.
people littles sound
That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them.
sorry world behind-you
It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.