He smiled his shy smile at her as he went into the yard. Anne took the memory of it with her when she went to her room that night and sat for a long while at her open window, thinking of the past and dreaming of the future. Outside the Snow Queen was mistily white in the moonshine; the frogs were singing in the marsh beyond Orchard Slope. Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it. L.m. Montgomery
For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.
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Stephanie Perkins
Your handtouching mine.this is howgalaxiescollide.
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Sanober Khan
And I sometimes think that a moment of touching is the difference between complete utter despair and the ability to carry on.
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Eleanor Cameron
The other mammoths were as protective of the dying as they were of newborns, and they gathered around tying to make the fallen one get up. When all was over, they buried the dead ancestor under piles of dirt, grass, leaves, or snow. Mammoths were...
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Jean M. Auel
I'll get them out and come back. I promise."" On your word as a cutthroat and a pirate?" He touched my cheek once, briefly. "Privateer."Another explosion rocked the grounds." Let's go! " shouted Mal.As we sprinted into the tunnel, I glanced back and saw Nikolai...
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Leigh Bardugo
More Quotes By L.m. Montgomery
Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of...
Anne laughed." I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you.
And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.
A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and...
Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.
