Anne-of-the-island Quote by L.M. Montgomery

“Her life was shameful and lonely. There was no longer any hope for her, there was no chance of escape. Yet, in spite of…

— Anna Kavan

“She came and she went, in sorrow for the death of dreams, and she came no more.”

— Glen Cook

“[She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an ear straining…

— George Eliot

“Maybe it was this place, this strange, ramshackle, warm-hearted place, that had given his wife that air of laughing, welcoming life. Because here she…

— Amanda McCabe

“She knew there were parts of the past you had to let go of, certain lands that were irredeemably lost, sorrowfully lost, but, finally,…

— Robert Goolrick

“She felt the night air on her, pretending she was somewhere else, in some other time. She often did this before she did something…

— Adrienne Maree Brown

“She had the feeling that somehow, in the very far-off places, perhaps even in far-off ages, there would be a meaning found to all…

— Hannah Hurnard

“As she read on, her surroundings gradually faded, and soon there lay about her only the mists of dream; the purple, star-strown mists beyond…

— H.P. Lovecraft Poetry and The Gods

“It seemed to her that she had never known what the night was like before. Up till now it had been dark, silent, beautiful…

— Katherine Mansfield

“Hope springs eternal in the town of dreams...and so does despair and humiliation.”

— Chet Williamson

“Living, now, had become not simple existence that one took for granted, but a bonus, a gift, with every day that lay ahead an…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“What he felt, though, was the echo of her flesh, and the reverberations of their farewell, with all its doubts and pleasures.”

— Diana Gabaldon