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“I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.”
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“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”
― The Story Girl
― The Story Girl
“People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“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
“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
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