But Anne with her elbows on the window sill, her soft cheek laid against her clasped hands, and her eyes filled with visions, looked out unheedingly across city roof and spire to that glorious dome of sunset sky and wove her dreams of a possible future from the golden tissue of youth's own optimism. All the Beyond was hers, with its possibilities lurking rosily in the oncoming years โ each year a rose of promise to be woven into an immortal chaplet.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryI don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryMrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didnโt mean to be wicked. Itโs so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isnโt it?
Lucy Maud Montgomery