Lucy Maud
Lucy Maud
forgiving twenties easier
That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.
thinking together three
There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.
looks honey cast-away
But I'd rather look like you than be pretty," she told Anne sincerely. Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting.
air diana wells
What is it really like to be engaged?" asked Anne curiously. "Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to," answered Diana, with that maddening air of superior wisdom always assumed by those who are engaged over those who are not.
people trying use
there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.
christmas green nasty
I don't like green Christmases. They're not green—they're just nasty faded browns and grays.
mind made
When I make up my mind to do a thing it stays made up.
love beautiful gay
Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.
life ambition interesting
Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.
life hope perfect
My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
dream reality passing-away
she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
beautiful silly men
Few women are so beautiful and charming that they can afford to divest themselves of any portion of their charm; so they are very foolish to do so by smoking. It doesn't matter about men. Men look ugly and silly, too, when smoking. But it isn't beauty that matters with them-only strength
foolish folks knows
Don't you know that it is only the very foolish folk who talk sense all the time? (Anne)
cat animal gray
The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.