The Story Girl
1911
On a remote farm on Prince Edward Island, two city boys discover that summer has a different meaning altogether. Beverley and Felix King arrive at their relatives' home expecting an ordinary country visit, but they find something far rarer: their cousin Sara Stanley, the Story Girl, whose tales hold an entire community hostage. She doesn't just tell stories, she conjures them into being, weaving local legends, family ghosts, and impossible romances into the fabric of everyday life. As the weeks unfold, the boys and their cousins navigate the small dramas of childhood while Sara spins tale after tale, each one more enchanting than the last. But there is a sweetness tinged with sadness here, a premonition that these summer days cannot last, that the magic of storytelling is also the magic of holding time at arm's length. Montgomery, who called this her favorite of her novels, captures something essential about the way stories shape who we become and preserve what we cannot keep.
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“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.””
— L. M. Montgomery
“There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it. And they do not know that it is fairyland until they have grown so old that they forget the way. One bitter day, when they seek it and cannot find it, they realize what they have lost; and that is the tragedy of life. On that day the gates of Eden are shut behind them and the age of gold is over. Henceforth they must dwell in the common light of common day. Only a few, who remain children at heart, can ever find that fair, lost path again; and blessed are they above mortals. They, and only they, can bring us tidings from that dear country where we once sojourned and from which we must evermore be exiles. The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.””
— L. M. Montgomery
“The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.””
— L. M. Montgomery
“It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.””
— L. M. Montgomery
“Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.””
— L. M. Montgomery
“It is always safe to dream of spring. For it is sure to come; and if it be not just as we have pictured it, it will be infinitely sweeter.””
— L. M. Montgomery
“When weeds go to heaven, I suppose they will be flowers.””
— L. M. Montgomery
“Well, I don't know," said the Story Girl thoughtfully. "I think there are two kinds of true thing - true things that , and true things that are , but be.””
— L. M. Montgomery
“I do like a road, because you can be always wondering what is at the end of it.””
— L. M. Montgomery
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