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and others’ good impressions of him. But I have learned that the AA adage is true: you’re as sick as your secrets.
“Up ahead, a line of mesas comes into view, flat as tabletops and crumbling along the edges, rock-cakes going stale, eternally baking.”
― Hour of the Bees
― Hour of the Bees
“All life lessons are not learned at college,' she thought. 'Life teaches them everywhere.”
― Anne of the Island
― Anne of the Island
“Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!”
― Anne of the Island
― Anne of the Island
“Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?But am I talking too much? People are always telling me I do. Would you rather I didn't talk? If you say so I'll stop. I can STOP when I make up my mind to it, although it's difficult.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“It was from my mother that I learned reading was not a duty but a reward, and from her that I intuited a vital truth: most people are trapped in a solitary existence, a life circumscribed by want and failures of imagination, limitations from which readers are exempt.”
― Elsewhere
― Elsewhere
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