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 is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
The only reason I don't throw myself into your arms, kiss you and make love with you now is that I lack the courage and am afraid of loving you.
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