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.
As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.
Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.
Meditate, oft. Separate thyself for a season from the cares of the world. Get close to nature and learn from the lowliest of that which manifests in nature, in the earth; in the birds, in the trees, in the grass, in the flowers, in the bees; that the life of each is a manifesting, is a song of glory to its Maker. And do thou likewise!
Once you learn to read the land, I have no fear of what you will do to it, or with it. And I know many pleasant things it will do to you.
Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man
Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.
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