Anne of the Island = Аня с острова Принца Эдуарда

Kitobdan iqtiboslar  Anne of the Island = Аня с острова Принца Эдуарда
muallif Lucy Maud Montgomery

b2451633353iqtibos olmoqda5 yil oldin
“People who haven’t natural gumption never learn,” retorted Aunt Jamesina, “neither in college nor life. If they live to be a hundred they really don’t know anything more than when they were born. It’s their misfortune not their fault, poor souls. But those of us who have some gumption should duly thank the Lord for it.”
3 kishiga yoqdi
Fikr bildirish
Vasilisa Skakun
Vasilisa Skakuniqtibos olmoqda3 oy oldin
She said she’d have spoken years ago, only she thought I wouldn’t. And I never spoke to her because I was sure she wouldn’t speak to me. Isn’t it strange how people misunderstand each other, Anne?”
2 kishiga yoqdi1 ta fikr
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Ирина А.
Ирина А.iqtibos olmoqda1 yil oldin
“‘I’ve tried the world—it wears no more The coloring of romance it wore,’” sighed Anne—and was straightway much comforted by the romance in the idea of the world being denuded of romance!
1 kishiga yoqdi
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Ирина А.
Ирина А.iqtibos olmoqda1 yil oldin
And then—she found herself trembling as if she were reeling back from a precipice. To her came one of those moments when we realize, as by a blinding flash of illumination, more than all our previous years have taught us. She pulled her hand from Roy’s.
1 kishiga yoqdi
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Ирина А.
Ирина А.iqtibos olmoqda1 yil oldin
It was the old diamond disillusion of childhood repeated—the same disappointment she had felt when she had first seen the chill sparkle instead of the purple splendor she had anticipated. “That’s not my idea of a diamond,” she had said.
1 kishiga yoqdi
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Ирина А.
Ирина А.iqtibos olmoqda1 yil oldin
Anne did not speak. In the darkness she felt her face burning. She slipped her hand inside her collar and caught at the gold chain. One energetic twist and it gave way. Anne thrust the broken trinket into her pocket. Her hands were trembling and her eyes were smarting.
1 kishiga yoqdi
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Ирина А.
Ирина А.iqtibos olmoqda1 yil oldin
Only her old friend’s flowers seemed to belong to this fruition of old-blossoming hopes which he had once shared.
1 kishiga yoqdi
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Ирина А.
Ирина А.iqtibos olmoqda1 yil oldin
Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.’
1 kishiga yoqdi
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Ирина А.
Ирина А.iqtibos olmoqda1 yil oldin
to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as the foreshadowing of victory.
1 kishiga yoqdi
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Ирина А.
Ирина А.iqtibos olmoqda1 yil oldin
The more I think of the plan the more I like it. We could have such good, independent times.
1 kishiga yoqdi
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