Rilla of Ingleside
L.M. Montgomery
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.”
“There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.”
“It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that 'this, too, will pass away.”
“I heard someone once say that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.”
“Before this war is over,' [Walter] said - or something said through his lips - 'every man and woman and child in Canada will feel it - you, Mary, will feel it - feel it to your heart's core. You will weep tears of blood over it. The Piper has come - and he will pipe until every corner of the world has heard his awful and irresistible music. It will be years before the dance of death is over - years, Mary. And in those years millions of hearts will break.”
“The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr," remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. "It is the most contented sound in the world.”
“Our sacrifice is greater than his," cried Rilla passionately. "Our boys give only themselves. We give them.”
“There are moments when we have real fun because, just for the moment, we don't think about things and then--we remember--and the remembering is worse than thinking of it all the time would have been.”
“She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.”
“Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.”
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Book Keywords:
emotional-pain, war, soul, remembering, adulthood, growth
