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“I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”

A Purple Pills reference! Tiny little nod to Blue Castle?

“Anyhow, there’ll be plenty of jam in heaven, that’s one comfort.”
Anne nipped a smile in the bud.
“Perhaps there will be . . . If we want it. But what makes you think so?”
“Why, it’s in the catechism,” said Davy. “‘Why should we love God?’ It says, ‘because he makes preserves, and redeems us. Preserves is just a holy way of saying jam.”

See? If you only watch the movies you miss out on a cussing bird and apparently Marilla adopting twins?

“A fellow has to fight something all through life. Didn’t somebody once define man as a fighting animal? And I want to fight disease and pain and ignorance, which are all members one of another.“

“Willowmere, where dark and light kissed each other under the firs.”

“She had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone.”

“But an August afternoon, with blue hazes scarfing the harvest slopes, little winds whispering elfishly in the poplars, and a dancing splendor of red poppies outflaming against the dark coppice of young firs in a corner of the cherry orchard, was fitter for dreams than dead languages.”