But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected. "I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyesโwhen Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gablesโwhen Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever hadโwhen I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy." -Anne
Lucy Maud MontgomeryIt was really dreadful to be so different from other peopleโฆand yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryAs a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
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 MontgomeryIsn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive-it's such an interesting world.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryValancy herself had never quite relinquished a certain pitiful, shamed, little hope that Romance would come her way yet - never, until this wet, horrible morning, when she wakened to the fact that she was twenty-nine and unsought by any man. Ay, there lay the sting. Valancy did not mind so much being an old maid. After all, she thought, being an old maid couldnโt possibly be as dreadful as being married to an Uncle Wellignton or an Uncle Benjamin, or even an Uncle Herbert. What hurt her was that she had never had a chance to be anything but an old maid.
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