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Here is a selection of memorable quotes from The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery A character talking about Yukon: "But such a place to live! Those silences at the back of the north wind got me. I’ve never belonged to myself since.” p.269 She surrendered herself utterly to the charm of the moment. p.322 October—with a gorgeous pageant p.457 Such an interesting moment of Canadiana - a very famous Canadian authour who has written a character praising Canadian geese. “A land that can produce a goose like that is an admirable land,” vowed Barney. “Canada forever!” And they drank to the Union Jack a bottle of dandelion wine that Cousin Georgiana had given Valancy along with the bedspread. p.471

Here is a selection of memorable quotes from  Still She Haunts Me: A Novel of Lewis Carroll and Alice Liddell by Katie Roiphe I read this on my e-reader so these quotes have locations only, not page numbers :) But this happened to girls; Mrs. Liddell remembered it happening to Lorina, one day when stick-thinness became grace. loc 1175 [...] to feel the suspension of all desire, never to be acted upon, diffused; to remain forever in a state of anticipation, the emotion purified and clarified and refined by pain, by the long hours spent observing it and not inhabiting it. How strange and miraculous and unnerving it is to stumble accidentally on your capacity to open yourself so completely to someone else. To know that you will always feel this way and that time can have no possible effect. To watch it, like a natural wonder, like Niagara Falls, the eternal feeling rising up inside of you, flowing with deafening...