Best Of "Emily's Quest" by L.M. Montgomery
Here is a selection of memorable quotes from Emily's Quest by L.M. Montgomery.
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| Painting above: Young Woman with Flowers (Le Poupée Japonaise) c. 1918 by Mary Swanzy |
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 this strange vigil. Whatever passed - whatever came - beauty like this was eternal.
p. 27
All her life she had grown, as it seemed, by these fits and starts. Going on quietly and changelessly for months and years; then all at once suddenly realizing that she had left some “low-vaulted past” and emerged into some “new temple”of the soul more spacious than all that had gone before. Though always, at first, with a chill of change and a sense of loss.
p. 31
People who are old and wise never feel either.
p. 72
The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.
p.87
She wakened early and been seized with what her clan would doubtless have considered a temperamental desire to see the sunrise and make new acquaintances with Eden.
p. 135
My favourite gem is a diamond, when all is said and done,” Emily wrote to Ilse that night. “But I love gems of all kinds--except turquoise. Them I loathe—the shallow, insipid, soulless things. The gloss of pearl, glow of ruby, tenderness of sapphire, melting violet of amethyst, moonlit glimmer of aquamarine, milk and fire of opal—I love them all.”
p. 167
A girl who was so soon to assume the responsibilities of wedded life should be more thoughtful and sober.
p. 224
