“I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful 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
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“There are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“They lingered in the old gardens until twilight, sweet as dusk in Eden must have been”
“There was nobody else for me but you. I’ve loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school”
― Anne of the Island
“There was nobody else for me but you. I’ve loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school”
― Anne of the Island
“Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own”
― Anne of the Island
― Anne of the Island
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