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“Joyce was always fond of a banana split. Betty finds them uncouth. There’s something smutty about bananas, she says. She simply cannot see the need for them.”
― Birding
― Birding
“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”
― The Story Girl
― The Story Girl
“The gods are not kind to us, any more than children are kind to their toys. We are here to amuse the gods, and at times it amuses them to be unkind.”
― War of the Wolf
― War of the Wolf
“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
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