I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more 'scope for imagination' without them. And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter. We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each otherโand dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryThere was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former understood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation--was reveling in the thoroughness of her abasement. Where was the wholesome punishment upon which she, Marilla, had plumed herself? Anne had turned it into a species of positive pleasure.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryAll life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryWe are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
Lucy Maud Montgomery