Marilla of Green Gables
Sarah McCoy
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Tears were misunderstood, she thought, and used inappropriately most often. They were designed as a private response of being. Because sometimes life filled you to the brim and spilled over. Tears were the body's way of cleansing the overflow of emotions, from sorrow to joy and so many others that couldn't be described.”
“I have a voice just as much as you do. It’s a choice we make every minute. What truths are important enough to say aloud and what ones are important just to know. That’s the power. You’ve got to be discerning. You can change your mind any time you want, but you can’t take your words back. Not ever.”
“Tomorrow was a new day, with no memory or sentiments of yesterday.”
“The world is too large and too diverse for us to stay rooted in social convention when it no longer strengthens the people for whom it was created.”
“It's our duty to love the poor, the orphaned, the weary and burdened. Matthew 11:28. Love can be its own kind of war.”
“Well the end is coming, isn't it? We spend our entire lives running from it. No speaking of it allowed. Fearing it for our loved ones." She shook her head and folded the burp cloth in her hand. "But after all we've seen of the world, I decided I'll get more joy out of the days I have left if I just acknowledge that death is part of life. The leaves on an apple tree blossom yield and fall. No use fretting over the sweetness of the fruit. Got to pick it when it looks ripe and move on. It's the fool who's forlorn over what he imagines he's lost. I'm sure that's in the Gospel somewhere." Even if it wasn't, Rachel would amend the text to her liking. The Word according to Rachel, as some complained. Not Marilla of course. Rachel was her closest friend, so she kept quiet, in Cuthbert fashion.”
“The older I get, the more I see the truth. Greatness can be found anywhere. It doesn't need grandeur. There's greatness in the ordinary. Maybe even more than elsewhere.”
“Human hearts are full of strife. It's a fallen world, my dears. We can only do our best to establish safe havens where we can.”
“When the blazing sun is gone, When he nothing shines upon, Then you show your little light, Twinkle, twinkle all the night.”
“Nothing secret about a recipe. It's how you put it together that makes it yours.”
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strife, safe-havens, ordinary-things, greatness
