Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.
Interpretation
This quote suggests the beauty and magic of twilight, signifying the transition from day to night.
Lucy Maud Montgomery's quote captures the enchanting essence of twilight, a time when day gracefully gives way to night. By personifying twilight as a figure that draws a curtain and secures it with a star, she evokes both a sense of closure and the wonder of the natural world. This imagery reflects the peaceful transition and the beauty found in endings, suggesting that every conclusion can be adorned with beauty and magic, just like the night sky filled with stars.
In practice
This quote could be used to describe a serene evening during a nature walk.
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.
The god of dirt came up to me many times and said so many wise and delectable things, I lay on the grass listening to his dog voice, frog voice; now, he said, and now, and never once mentioned forever from, One or Two Things
Isimangaliso must be the only place on the globe where the oldest land mammal (rhinoceros) and the world biggest terrestrial mammal (elephant) share an ecosystem with the world's oldest fish (coelacanth) and the world's biggest marine mammal (whale)
Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young.
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
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