Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne of the island

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‘Anne had always loved that brook. Many a dream had she spun over its sparkling water in days gone by. She forgot lovelorn youths, and the cayenne speeches of malicious neighbors, and all the problems of her girlish existence. In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faery lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.’

‘The night was so very still that one should have been able to hear the whisper of roses in blossom-the laughter of daisies-the piping of grasses-many sweet sounds, all tangled up together. The beauty of moonlight on familiar fields irradiated the world.’

“There was nobody else- there never could be anybody else for me but you. I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school."

"I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU.”

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Anne had always loved that brook. Many a dream had she spun over its sparkling water in days gone by. She forgot lovelorn youths, and the cayenne speeches of malicious neighbors, and all the problems of her girlish existence. In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faery lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

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