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Lucy Maud Montgomery

Emily of New Moon

  • missninahas quoted4 years ago
    it be true that we "count time by heart throbs" Emily lived two years in it instead of two days.
  • missninahas quoted4 years ago
    "I am important to myself," cried Emily proudly.
  • missninahas quoted4 years ago
    Go forward to meet it fearlessly, dear.
  • missninahas quoted4 years ago
    And always when the flash came to her Emily felt that life was a wonderful, mysterious thing of persistent beauty.
  • b8707450709has quoted3 years ago
    "I mean you'll be able to do something by and by. Something—I don't know how much—but keep on—keep on."
  • b8707450709has quoted3 years ago
    "They say Mrs John Killegrew has swallowed her wedding-ring. I wonder what she did that for.
  • missninahas quoted4 years ago
    I like Perry but in a different way from Teddy. Isn't it funny, dear Father, how many kinds of ways of liking there are?
  • missninahas quoted4 years ago
    But there is a destiny which shapes the ends of young misses who are born with the itch for writing tingling in their baby fingertips, and in the fullness of time this destiny gave to Emily the desire of her heart—gave it to her, too, on the very day when she most needed it.
  • missninahas quoted4 years ago
    "Why don't you like me?" she asked directly.

    There was no reply. Emily looked straight at Chestnut-curls and repeated her question. Chestnut-curls felt herself compelled to answer it.

    "Because you ain't a bit like us," she muttered.

    "I wouldn't want to be," said Emily scornfully.
  • missninahas quoted4 years ago
    "It is a matter that concerns only myself,"
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