Explore Book Quotes

“Our lives will not be happy, but they will be harmless and free from the misery I now feel.”

“That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”

“O, would to God that the inclusive verge Of golden metal that must round my brow Were red-hot steel to sear me to the brains!”

“It was never the way she looked always the way she was I would have fallen in love with her with my eyes closed.”

“Marilla Cuthbert, you’re fairly in for it. Did you ever suppose you’d see the day when you’d be adopting an orphan girl? It’s surprising enough; but not so surprising as that Matthew should be at the bottom of it, him that always seemed to have such a mortal dread of little girls. Anyhow, we’ve decided on the experiment and goodness only knows what will come of it.”

″‘I will be brave,’ thought Despereaux. ‘I will try to be brave like a knight in shining armor. I will be brave for Princess Pea.‘”

“The jungle has many tongues. I know them all.”

“I’d come to this war a quiet, thoughtful sort of person, a college grad, Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude, all the credentials, but after seven months in the bush I realized that those high, civilized trappings had somehow been crushed under the weight of the simple daily realities. I’d turned mean inside.”

“He runs after cats, too. We don’t go to the zoo anymore.”

“I need release, I need to hurt myself more than the world can hurt me, and then I can comfort myself.”