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.
Yes, I get dry spells. Sometimes I can't turn out a thing for three months. When one of those spells comes on I quit trying to work and go out and see something of life. You can't write a story that's got any life in it by sitting at a writing table and thinking. You've got to get out into the streets, into the crowds, talk with people, and feel the rush and throb of real life-that's the stimulant for a story writer.
It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.
A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.
I want my audience to be constantly captivated, bewitched, so that it leaves the theatre dazed, stunned to be back on the pavement.
I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox.
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