What is a good book, I ask you?
Is it not one that takes you to the heights of exhilaration and to the depths of dispair? Is it not one that draws you in and makes you part of the story, where you laugh with the kindred spirits and cry with them in their sorrows? Is it not one where the race of Joseph sits in a wee little house o'er the shore or where kindred spirits bond over green spotted china dogs or in a love glorified Green gables?
How its magic lingers over the years! Why, it almost grows with me.. I've read it since I was 8 and now i'm 21 and still... it weaves such inexplicable unaging wonder over me. I dream again.. of the shores beyond, of the beauty of late spring nights on a well-trodden path which love, friendship, sorrow, laughter have consecrated and is perfumed by the lilies of the nile, the mayflowers, violets and the home of the ebony elusive Echo.
They say sex sells, gore grabs and horror heightens, but I say, give me a good-story full of love, friendship, family, bee-yew-ti-ful scenaries, laughter, sorrow and hope and i'll give you a story you'll never be weary of reading or ashamed of sharing with your grandchildren.
Such a book is the one that Anne lives in. Such is the book that Lucy Maud wrote.
dreamt of @ 9:55 am
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certain quotes from certain places..
"Blessed is the man who perseveres under trials because when he stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him." James 1:12
"Oh, nothing can happen more than once,
But all things must happen one day
Over hill and dale, over wood and stream,
My dying voice will blow away... " The Neverending story
"Walk by Faith, Not by sight" 2 Corinthians 5:7
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