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“People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.”
“It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night.”
“Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?”
“I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetryand I think it's nicer' Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed 'to look at ...”
“Anybody 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 mi...”
“Words aren't made they grow,' said Anne.”
“Don't be ridiculous, please.'The most insulting words in the world!”
“Look, do you see that poem?' she said suddenly, pointing.”
“We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.”
“She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.”
“The eastern sky above the firs was flushed faintly pink from the reflection of the west, and Anne was wondering dreamily if the spirit of color looked like that”
“but youth yearned to youth.”
“Isn't it queer that the things we writhe over at night are seldom wicked things? Just humiliating ones.”
“there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets.”
“Anne looked at the white young mother with a certain awe that had never entered into her feelings for Diana before. Could this pale woman with the rapture in her eyes be the little black-curled, ro...”
“She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness.”
“I don't believe Old Nick can be so very ugly,' said Aunt Jamesina reflectively. 'He wouldn't do so much harm if he was. I always think of him as a rather handsome gentleman.”
“Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.”
“…but youth yearned to youth.”
“…there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets.”
