Ruth

“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to notice these other qualities, which is so often the way of the world.”
― M.M. Kaye, The Ordinary Princess

“In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“It was all Mrs. Waddington could do to refrain from hurling a bust of Edgar Allan Poe at her head.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Small Bachelor