It's fun to be almost grown up in some ways, but it's not the kind of fun I expected, Marilla. There's so much to learn and do and think that there isn't time for big words.
Interpretation
Growing up can be enjoyable, yet it's filled with unexpected challenges and responsibilities.
In this quote, Lucy Maud Montgomery reflects on the complexities of growing up, emphasizing that while it can be enjoyable, the process is often accompanied by a realization of the many responsibilities and learning experiences that come with age. The speaker acknowledges that the thrill of becoming an adult can sometimes overshadow the seriousness and depth of what it means to truly mature, suggesting that fun isn't always aligned with expectations.
In practice
In a speech about the challenges of adolescence and the importance of embracing growth.
A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it.
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.
Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!" (Anne to Gilbert)
Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.
The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
What right had they to make me suffer like that?
Life without commitment is not worth living.
It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We're fallen angels who didn't believe that nothing means nothing.
At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous.
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