“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― The Secret Garden
― The Secret Garden
“There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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