You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.
Interpretation
Growing up requires leaving behind the innocence and fantasies of childhood.
In this quote, Lucy Maud Montgomery emphasizes the inevitable transition from childhood to adulthood, where one must let go of the whimsical and fantastical elements of youth, often referred to as 'fairyland'. This process can be seen as both a loss and a necessary step towards maturity, signaling the responsibilities and realities that accompany adult life.
In practice
This quote could be shared during a graduation ceremony to motivate students as they embark on their adult lives.
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.
Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.
No one knows my Struggle, they only see the Trouble. Not knowing it's hard to carry on when, No one loves you.
β When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Make sure you live,' she said. 'As decent as you can. I know you'll make mistakes, but sometimes you're meant to, okay?
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