โYou 're not eating anything,โ said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. โI can 't. I'm in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?โ
Lucy Maud MontgomeryBefore this war is over,' [Walter] said - or something said through his lips - 'every man and woman and child in Canada will feel it - you, Mary, will feel it - feel it to your heart's core. You will weep tears of blood over it. The Piper has come - and he will pipe until every corner of the world has heard his awful and irresistible music. It will be years before the dance of death is over - years, Mary. And in those years millions of hearts will break.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryI love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowfulโjust as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryWhen I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud. But really, Marilla, the flying part is glorious as long as it lasts. . . it's like soaring through a sunset. I think it almost pays for the thud.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryThat's one splendid thing about such affairs โ it's so lovely to look back to them.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryHow sadly things had changed since she had sat there the night after coming home! Then she had been full of hope and joy and the future had looked rosy with promise. Anne felt as if she had lived years since then, but before she went to bed there was a smile on her lips and peace in her heart. She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend--as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
Lucy Maud Montgomery