Lucy Maud
Lucy Maud
inanimate-objects umbrella depravity
It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.
writing want said
Make them do as you want them to," she said. "I can’t," mourned Anne. "Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again.
fashion looks doe
I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.
mice
I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse
sunset people scent
Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?
cat silent folks
There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.
cat two people
When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.
sorry joy may
I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.
change growing-up people
Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!
believe mean different
Don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away.
reading writing stories
Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.
poverty imagine poor
That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.
fashion children thinking
Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.
love mean people
When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.