living my anne shirley- edwardian student dreams
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"But an August afternoon, with blue hazes scarfing the harvest slopes, little winds whispering elfishly in the poplars, and a dancing splendour of red poppies outflaming against the dark coppice of young firs in a corner of the cherry orchard, was fitter for dreams than dead languages." - L. M Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
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"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." - edgar allan poe
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"I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string."
- L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
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“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.” —Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Queen Mary
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"Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you."
- L.M Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
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What are the 10 best books?
love this question! of course these are my opinions but here are the 10 best books (not ranked)
the book thief by markus zusak
anne of green gables (whole series) by l. m. montgomery
six of crows (whole duology) by leigh bardugo
punishment of a hunter by yulia yakovleva
picnic at hanging rock by joan lindsay
the bell jar by sylvia plath
the summer book by tove jansson
the thursday murder club (whole series) by richard osman
little women by louisa may alcott
all the light we cannot see by anthony doerr
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"Where were they going? What strange feminine secrets did they share in that last gay fateful hour?"
- Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
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"[...] Since she enjoys her long night's festival,
Let me prepare towards her, and let me call
This hour her vigil, and her eve, since this
Both the year's, and the day's deep midnight is."
- a paragraph from John Donnie's poem "A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's day"
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"For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her sister’s life--uneventful, unambitious, yet full of the genuine virtues which ‘smell sweet, and blossom in the dust’, the self-forgetfulness that makes the humblest on earth remembered soonest in heaven, the true success which is possible to all." - Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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