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.
Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.
As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.
Many people say that this is not an easy issue, we cannot just say that this is how it is, it's not black and white. But I say that this is black and white. Either we stop the emissions or we don't. There are no gray areas when it comes to survival.
If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the greening of America. The idea of 'greening' involves color, flowering, freshness of spring, and, above all, respect for what is organic and vegetative as distinct from the mechanical and metallic.
The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process.
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