All of these quotes are by
L. M. Montgomery's novel Magic for Marigold:
"'Beauty of a fatal gift She will be better without it', sighed Aunt
Nina.
'Then why do you cold-cream your face every night and eat raw carrots for your
complexion and dye your hair?' asked Old Grandmother." - Chapter I,3.
"'It's my opinion children
shouldn't be named at all. They should be numbered until they're
grown up, then choose their own names.'" -Uncle Klon, Chapter I,3.
"Some old text of Sunday school days suddenly flitted through Klondike Lesley's
dazed brain:
'She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.'
For a second their eyes met and locked. Only a second. But it did
the work of years. The irresistible woman had met the immovable man and
the inevitable had happened." - Chapter II,2.
"'Are you asleep ma'am?'
she whispered cautiously.
'Shut up. Of course I'm asleep,' snapped Old Grandmother." -Chapter
V,2.
"'It's a good test - the test of silence. If you can sit in silence
with any one for half an hour and feel 'comfortable,' you and that person can
be friends. If not, friends you'll never be and don't waste time trying." -
Old Grandmother, Chapter V,4.
" 'Places know when they are
loved - just the same as people.'" - Old Grandmother, Chapter V,4.
"'I was once afraid of Death. He was a foe then - now he is a lover. Do
you know Marigold that it has been thirty years since any one called me by my
name? Do you know what my name is?'
'No-o,' admitted Marigold. It was the first time she ever realised that
Old Grandmother must have a name.
'My name is Edith. Do you know I have an odd fancy. I want to hear
some one call me that again. Just once. Call me by my name, Marigold.'
Marigold gasped again. This was terrible. It was sacrilege. Why,
one might almost as well be expected to call God by His name to His face." -
Chapter V,4.
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