The Blue Castle was written in 1926 by L. M. Montgomery. Here are some of my favorite quotes from the book.
"If you can sit in silence with a
person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that
person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need
not waste time in trying."
"Valancy was neither jealous nor selfish. It was only that she wanted a
dust-pile of her own - small or big mattered not."
"It was three o'clock in the morning - the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free."
"'I'm sick of the fragrance of dead things.'"
"Life cannot stop because tragedy enters it."
"Valancy was perfectly happy. Some things dawn on you slowly. Some tings come by lightning flashes. Valancy had had a lightning flash. She knew quite well that she loved Barney. Yesterday she had been all her own. Now she was this man's. Yet he had done nothing - said nothing. He had not even looked at her as a woman. But that didn't matter. Nor did it matter what he was or what he had done. She loved him without any reservations. Everything in her went out wholly to him. she had no wish to stifle or disown her love. She seemed to be his so absolutely that thought apart from him - thought in which he did not predominate - was an impossibility."
"'Good Lord, do you learn all that
fellow's books by heart?' was Barney's disgusted reaction as he strode
off.
John Foster's books were all that kept my soul alive the past five years,'
averred Valancy."
"'The woods will have their own way
even with those obvious dandelions. In a while all that obtrusive yellowness
and complacency will be gone and we'll find here misty, phantom-like
globes hovering over those long grasses in full harmony with the traditions
of the forest.'
'That sounds John Fosterish,' teased Valancy. 'What have I done to deserve
a slam like that?' complained Barney"
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