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"Lilias Trotter has come to mean so much to me since I first started learning about her, and so I’ve been highly anticipating this book (though somehow only heard about it right before its release)! That the author describes her intention of it as “…a drawing near to someone in a friendship across time,” makes my heart happy." — May 03, 2026 10:57AM
"Lilias Trotter has come to mean so much to me since I first started learning about her, and so I’ve been highly anticipating this book (though somehow only heard about it right before its release)! That the author describes her intention of it as “…a drawing near to someone in a friendship across time,” makes my heart happy." — May 03, 2026 10:57AM
“Anne walked home very slowly in the moonlight. The evening had changed something for her. Life held a different meaning, a deeper purpose. On the surface it would go on just the same; but the deeps had been stirred. It must not be the same with her as with poor butterfly Ruby. When she came to the end of one life it must not be to face the next with the shrinking terror of something wholly different--something for which accustomed thought and ideal and aspiration had unfitted her. The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must begin here on earth.
That goodnight in the garden was for all time. Anne never saw Ruby in life again.”
― Anne of the Island
That goodnight in the garden was for all time. Anne never saw Ruby in life again.”
― Anne of the Island
“After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”
― Anne of Avonlea
― Anne of Avonlea
“I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words.”
― Till We Have Faces
― Till We Have Faces
“Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”
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“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.”
― Till We Have Faces
― Till We Have Faces
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