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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)

by L.M. Montgomery

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"I've never read Anne of Green Gables and I am most certainly glad to have decided to start reading it. I love Anne, for I tend to see myself in her, and I absolutely love the characterization and the plot is running smoothly. I absolutely and most fervently love it so far." — Feb 11, 2016 02:15PM

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Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

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Mar 06, 2016 08:45PM

Cay’s Quotes

“The second Mrs. Helstone, inversing the natural order of insect existence, would have fluttered through the honeymoon a bright, admired butterfly, and crawled the rest of her days a sordid trampled worm.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

tags: marriage

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“You don’t love a girl because of beauty.
You love her because she sings a song only you can understand.”
― L.J. Smith, Secret Vampire

tags: beauty, connection, kindred-spirits, love, soulmate, soulmates

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“Gratitude is a divine emotion. It fills the heart, not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever. I like to taste leisurely of bliss. Devoured in haste, I do not know its flavor.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

tags: gratitude

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“Love is real--the most real, the most lasting, the sweetest and yet the bitterest thing we know.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

tags: love

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“Be kind to all the people you meet on your journey.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

tags: advice-for-daily-living, advice-quotes, compassion-quotes, compassion-wisdom, compassionate-grateful, daily-life, daily-living, daily-quotes, forgiveness-quotes, human-being, humanity, humanity-and-society, journey-in-life, journey-of-life, journey-quotes, journey-to-yourself, kindness-compassion, kindness-quotes, kindred-spirits, life-and-living, life-experience, life-lessons, life-quotes, mercy, peace, peace-quote-life-philosophy, people, people-quotes, people-relations, society, tolerance, tolerant-attitude, travel-quotes, travelers, travelers-blessing

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