“What a comfort one familiar face is in a howling wilderness of strangers!”
Source: Anne of the Island (1915), Ch. 3
In the third book in L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series, Anne of the Island, our protagonist leaves her teaching work in Avonlea in order to study for her B.A. at Redmond College. Living in a boardinghouse and later with old friends from Queens, she experiences a number of misadventures, including a couple marriage proposals.
“What a comfort one familiar face is in a howling wilderness of strangers!”
Source: Anne of the Island (1915), Ch. 3
“But feeling is so different from knowing.”
My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.
Source: Anne of the Island (1915), Ch. 2
“She found, however, that revenge hurts nobody quite so much as the one who tries to inflict it.”
Source: Anne of the Island (1915), Ch. 2