02c. 1896 ADShe had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
03c. 1896 ADListen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
04c. 1896 ADEverybody has. It wouldn't do for us to have all our dreams fulfilled. We would be as good as dead if we had nothing left to dream about.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
05c. 1896 ADI'm so glad you're here, Anne,' said Miss Lavendar, nibbling at her candy. 'If you weren't I should be blue…very blue…almost navy blue. Dreams and make-believes are all very well in the daytime and the sunshine, but when dark and storm come they fail to satisfy. One wants real things then. But you don't know this…seventeen never knows it. At seventeen dreams do satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you further on.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
06c. 1896 ADShe wondered if old dreams could haunt rooms - if, when one left forever the room where she had joyed and suffered and laughed and wept, something of her, intangible and invisible, yet nonetheless real, did not remain behind like a voiceful memory.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
07c. 1896 ADThat's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
08c. 1896 ADThere is no such thing as freedom on earth," he said. "Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
10c. 1896 ADOh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
11c. 1896 ADPeople told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
12c. 1896 ADI've put out a lot of little roots these two years," Anne told the moon, "and when I'm pulled up they're going to hurt a great deal. But it's best to go, I think, and, as Marilla says, there's no good reason why I shouldn't. I must get out all my ambitions and dust them.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
13c. 1896 ADChanges come all the time. Just as soon as things get really nice they change,' she said with a sigh.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
14c. 1896 ADChanges ain't totally pleasant but they're excellent things... Two years is about long enough for things to stay exactly the same. If they stayed put any longer they might grow mossy.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
15c. 1896 ADWhich would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
16c. 1896 ADSecrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
17c. 1896 ADI am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence something to thank God for. I suppose our 'blues' are the price we have to pay for our temperament. 'The gods don't allow us to be in their debt.' They give us sensitiveness to beauty in all its forms but the shadow of the gift goes with it.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
18c. 1896 ADOh, Mr. Cuthbert," she whispered, that place we came through--that white place--what was it?""Well now, you must mean the Avenue," said Matthew after a few moments' profound reflection. "It is a kind of pretty place.""Pretty? Oh, PRETTY doesn't seem the right word to use. Nor beautiful, either. They don't go far enough. Oh, it was wonderful--wonderful. It's the first thing I ever saw that couldn't be improved upon by imagination. It just satisfies me here"--she put one hand on her breast--"it made a queer funny ache and yet it was a pleasant ache. Did you ever have an ache like that, Mr. Cuthbert?""Well now, I just can't recollect that I ever had.""I have it lots of time--whenever I see anything royally beautiful. But they shouldn't call that lovely place the Avenue. There is no meaning in a name like that. They should call it--let me see--the White Way of Delight. Isn't that a nice imaginative name?L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
19c. 1896 ADNot lovelier. But a different kind of loveliness. There are so many kinds of loveliness.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
20c. 1896 ADLove! What a searing, torturing, intolerably sweet thing it was - this possession of body, soul and mind! With something at its core as fine and remote and purely spiritual as the tiny blue spark in the heart of the unbreakable diamond.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
21c. 1896 ADThe body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
22c. 1896 ADAnybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
23c. 1896 ADI have made up my mind that I will never marry. I shall be wedded to my art.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
24c. 1896 ADThere is so much in the world for us if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it ourselves- so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful for.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
