There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the grace and fluidity in a person's movements, suggesting a joyful and artistic approach to life.
Lucy Maud Montgomery's quote evokes an image of a person whose every movement exudes elegance and joy, suggesting that her presence transforms the ordinary act of walking into something mesmerizing, akin to dancing. It symbolizes the beauty of living life with passion and a carefree spirit, encouraging us to embrace our own movements and interactions with the same artistry.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech about embracing life with passion.
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.
Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order.
A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole.
It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.
A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.
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