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"Is [Pippi Longstocking] perhaps Annika's shadow -- the female figure of fantasy, and compensating character, that every girl secretly keeps by her side and listens to -- she who dares everything and manages everything -- this Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshake Mackrelmint Ephraimsdaughter Longstocking?"
— Nov 15, 2011 07:31AM
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"People's feeling, people's love, or lack of love, relationships between children and grown-ups, all these mean much more to me than anything else." (From a letter AL wrote in 1975)
— Nov 17, 2011 05:58AM
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Speaking of her love of Anne of Green Gables as a girl: "Oh, you unforgettable one, you ride forever in the gig beside Matthew Cuthbert under the blossoming apple tree at Avonlea! How I lived with that girl! One whole summer my sisters and I played at Anne of Green Gables in the big heap of sawdust up at the sawmill; I was Diana Barry, and the puddle by the midden behind the byre was the dark, reflecting wave."
— Nov 09, 2011 09:01AM