Last week, I read Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm as part of my summer of nostalgic rereading. I read it on Kindle, and highlighted several quotations. I had forgotten how much I do like Rebecca. (P.S. The relationship with Adam Ladd made me uncomfortable…definitely wouldn’t fly today.) But a few quotes:
That’s just the way you [Rebecca] look, for all the world as if you did have a lamp burning inside of you.
But, she thought, if there were somebody who not only loved but understood; who spoke her language, comprehended her desires, and responded to her mysterious longings!
She had always had such eager hunger for knowledge, such thirst for love, such passionate longing for the music, the beauty, the poetry of existence!
[Rebecca’s teacher] marveled daily at the inexhaustible way in which the girl poured out and gathered in the treasures of thought and experience that belonged to her.
Threads of joy ran in and out of the gray tangled web of daily living.
Finally, Rebecca tells her mother, when she is back home caring for her family and forgoing opportunities to go forth into the world:
To be alive makes up for everything…
Have a beautiful day, all!
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