Anne's House of Dreams
1917
Anne's House of Dreams
1917
The romance that began in Green Gables finally reaches its culmination. Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe, after years of yearning and near-misses, are about to be married. But this is not the story of the wedding. It is the story of what comes after: the leaving, the building, the making of a home and a life together.Four Winds Harbor awaits them, with its misty shores and lighthouse casting long shadows. Here Anne discovers that married life is not the fairy tale ending she imagined but something richer and stranger. There are new friends: Captain Jim, keeper of lonely lights and sadder stories; Miss Cornelia Bryant, who speaks her mind with a ferocity that startles; and Leslie Moore, a woman whose beauty masks a life of quiet desperation. Anne's luminous spirit shines into dark corners, but some wounds cannot be healed by kindness alone.This is the book where Anne grows up fully, where the dreamy girl becomes a woman navigating real loss, real responsibility, the ache of dreams fulfilled that somehow still contain grief. Montgomery writes with clear eyes about what it means to leave childhood behind.
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“I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.””
— L. M. Montgomery
“I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.””
— L. M. Montgomery
“I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.””
— L. M. Montgomery
“All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer”
— L. M. Montgomery
“The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only”
— L. M. Montgomery
“Even when I'm alone I have real good company”
— L. M. Montgomery
“But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected."I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes”
— L. M. Montgomery
“It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em," said Captain Jim. "When I ponder on them seeds I don't find it nowise hard to believe that we've got souls that'll live in other worlds. You couldn't hardly believe there was life in them tiny things, some no bigger than grains of dust, let alone colour and scent, if you hadn't seen the miracle, could you?””
— L. M. Montgomery
“My library isn't very extensive but every book in it is a friend.””
— L. M. Montgomery
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