Quotes

"I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't. " ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery "When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding." ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery "All life lessons are not learned at college," she thought. "Life teaches them everywhere." ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery "I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want you." ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery "I don't like irony," she said; "it indicates a small soul." ~ The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously. ~ The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs "I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first." ~ Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? Is it the secret instinct of decaying nature, or the soul's impulsive throb, as immortality draws on? Be it what it may, it rested in the heart of Eva, a calm, sweet, prophetic certainty that Heaven was near; calm as the light of sunset, sweet as the bright stillness of autumn, there her little heart reposed, only troubled by sorrow for those who loved her so dearly. ~ Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short. ~ Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe No tear dropped over that pillow; in such straits as these, the heart has no tears to give,—it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence. ~ Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe