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― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“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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“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
“She is a woman, and what women want, they get, and if the world and all it holds must be broken in the getting, then so be it.”
― Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur
― Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur
“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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