Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways.
Interpretation
Romance often emerges quietly and subtly rather than dramatically.
In this quote, Lucy Maud Montgomery reflects on the nature of romance, suggesting that it does not always arrive with grand gestures or overt displays, but instead often comes gently and naturally, akin to the arrival of a trusted companion. This perspective emphasizes the subtle beauty of romantic connections that grow over time, highlighting the significance of quiet moments and familiarity in nurturing love.
In practice
Using this quote in a wedding speech to emphasize the beauty of everyday love.
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.
There,β she said softly. βNow he could be sleeping.
If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love. And to deny that for your own political expediency, I don't want to live in that column. It ain't worth it.
You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.
In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
She even touches Jimmy's face on the photos, and I see what it is to love someone like Milla loved that man. Her fingertips are made of love.
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