Emily's Quest Quotes

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If the bards of old the true has told The sirens have raven hair. But over the earth since art had birth, They paint the angels fair.

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An old house that had lived its life long ago and so was very quiet and wise and a little mysterious. Also a little austere, but very kind.

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Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.

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Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers.

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A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.

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Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade.

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Oh, I don't wonder babies always cry when they wake up in the night. So often I want to do it too.

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I can always get through to-day very nicely. It's to-morrow I can't live through

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Don't let a three-o'clock-at-night feeling fog your soul.

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You see," she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.

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The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.

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I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen in halls of fancy.

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Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?

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Since ever the world was spinning And till the world shall end You've your man in the beginning Or you have him in the end, But to have him from start to finish And neither nor borrow nor lend Is what all of the girls are wanting And none of the gods...

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This afternoon I sat at my window and alternately wrote at my new serial and watched a couple of dear, amusing, youngish maple-trees at the foot of the garden. They whispered secrets to each other all the afternoon. They would bend together and talk ...

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