Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?

I am well in body although considerably rumpled up in spirit, thank you, ma'am,' said Anne gravely. Then aside to Marilla in an audible whisper, 'There wasn't anything startling in that, was there, Marilla?

Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces

And he wrote, "When the moon rises tonight think of me and I'll think of you.

Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.

Besides, I've been feeling a little blue — just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker.

How wicked I was to wish that something dramatic would happen!' she thought. 'Oh, if we could only have those dear, monotonous, pleasant days back again! I would *never* grumble about them again.