Emily's Quest
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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“Then she lifted her face and smiled gallantly at the empty sky. ‘There will be other rainbows.’ she said. Emily was a chaser of rainbows.”
“The ghostly hands of a fitful wind played with her hair. The perfume of June lilies stole in from the bed under the open window---a haunting odour, sweeter than music, like all the lost perfumes of old, unutterably dear years. Far off, two beautiful, slender, black firs, of exactly the same height, came out against the silver dawn-lit sky like the twin spires of some Gothic cathedral rising out of a bank of silver mist. Just between them hung a dim old moon, as beautiful as the evening crescent. Their beauty was a comfort and stimulant to Emily under the stress of the strange vigil. Whatever passed---whatever came---beauty like this was eternal.”
“She wanted summer; fields of daisies; seas misty with moonrise or purple with sunset; companionship; Teddy. In such moments she always knew she wanted Teddy.”
“She could never, in any words, deny her love for Teddy. It was much a part of herself that it has a divine right to truth.”
“I went on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen and has a fancy.”
“I know that into everybody’s life must come some days of depression and discouragement when all things in life seem to lose savour. The sunniest day has its clouds; but one must not forget that the sun is there all the time.”
“For disguise the fact as we will, when friends,even the closest— perhaps the more because of that very closeness— meet again after a separation there is always a chill, lesser or greater, of change. Neither finds the other quite the same. This is natural and inevitable. Human nature is ever growing and retrogressive— never stationary. But still, with all our philosophy, who is if can repress a little feeling of bewildered disappointment when we realize that our friend is not and can never be just the same as before— even though the change may be by way of improvement?”
“Even if we never find it,’ he said to Emily as they lingered in the New Moon garden under the violet sky of a long, wonderous northern twilight, on the last evening before he went away, ‘there’s something in the search for it that better than even the finding would be.”
“Don’t let a three-o’clock-at-night feeling fog your soul.”
“And she knew, just as simply and just as surely that she loved him— had always loved him, with a love that lay at the very foundation of he being.”
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Book Keywords:
whimsical, summer, friendship, love, unrequited-love, beauty, dreams, growing-up, moon, positive-thinking, death-and-dying, romantic, loneliness, nature, longing
