Lucy Maud
Lucy Maud
mean heart desire
Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.
fashion nightmare plates
She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.
memories book reading
I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no new book can ever have -- for at every reading the memories and atmosphere of other readings come back and I am reading old years as well as an old book.
space departed woods
But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them.
lonely littles sometimes
Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.
people stories too-much
Jane's stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills the off to get rid of them." -Anne Shirley
atmosphere walks happens
She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.
people sobriety knack
I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.
beautiful unkind-words quarrels
We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word; and I hope it will always be so. But things can't be quite the same after this. You'll have other interests. I'll just be on the outside.
night wish tomorrow
I wish I were dead, or that it were tomorrow night,' groaned Phil.
said made grows
Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.
imagination anything-in-life lm-montgomery
But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?
mind trouble my-own
I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.
dream winter past
She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.