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“Providence trains us by disappointment, surprises us with unexpected success, and turns our seeming trials into blessings.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys

“My idea is that if we girls have any influence we should use it for the good of these boys, and not pamper them up, making slaves of ourselves and tyrants of them. Let them prove what they can do and be before they ask anything of us, and give us a chance to do the same. Then we know where we are, and shall not make mistakes to mourn over all our lives.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys

“The year is a book, isn’t it, Marilla? Spring’s pages are written in Mayflowers and violets, summer’s in roses, autumn’s in red maple leaves, and winter in holly and evergreen.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“It was November—the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“They left off talking. They ceased to mention heaven. They were just cups of acceptance.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Enchanted April

“Now she had taken off her goodness and left it behind her like a heap of rain-sodden clothes, and she only felt joy.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Enchanted April

“We could certainly use a detective. And I've got to hand it to you, Nancy - you sure can keep your head.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Secret of Shadow Ranch

“They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.”
― Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome

“She pronounced the word married as if her voice caressed it. It seemed a rustling covert leading to enchanted glades.”
― Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome

“When she said to him once "It looks as if it was painted!" it seemed to Ethan that the art of definition could go no farther, and that words had at last been found to utter his secret souls.”
― Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome

“If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon

“To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon

“She will love deeply, she will suffer terribly, she will have glorious moments to compensate.”
― L.M. Montgomery , Emily of New Moon

“You have yet to learn how kind time is. And life has something for you - I feel it. Go forward to meet it fearlessly, dear.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon

“She was beginning to be a little glad again in sunset and bird song and early white stars, in moonlit nights and singing winds. She knew life was going to be wonderful.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon

“We had a yelling contest there the other night to see which could yell the loudest. To my surprise I found I could. You never can tell what you can do till you try.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon

“My pen shall heal, not hurt.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“It was a lovely afternoon - such an afternoon as only September can produce when summer has stolen back for one more day of dream and glamour.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“Lovely thoughts came flying to meet me like birds. They weren't my thoughts. I couldn't think anything half so exquisite. They came from somewhere.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“Don't let them make anything of you but yourself, that's all.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“I don’t feel very much like Pooh today," said Pooh.

"There there," said Piglet. "I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Then she lifted her face and smiled gallantly at the empty sky. ‘There will be other rainbows.’ she said.
Emily was a chaser of rainbows.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Emily's Quest

“Don’t let a three-o’clock-at-night feeling fog your soul.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Emily's Quest

“She wanted summer; fields of daisies; seas misty with moonrise or purple with sunset; companionship; Teddy. In such moments she always knew she wanted Teddy.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Emily's Quest

“Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?”
― L. M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest

“You see," she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest