I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryThe ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryAll that Ruby said was so horribly true, she was leaving everything she cared for. She had laid up her treasures on earth only. She had lived solely for the little things of life, the things that pass, forgetting the great things that go onward into eternity bridging the gulf between the two lives and making of death a mere passing of one dwelling to the other. From twilight to unclouded day. ...it was no wonder her soul clung in blind helplessness to the only things she knew and loved.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryBut 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.
Lucy Maud Montgomery