Emily Climbs Quotes
"Words are such fascinating things. The very sound of some of them—'haunted'—'mystic'—for example, gives me the flash."
"But there is one secret I do not know—I would give everything else I do know for it—one secret—perhaps I shall never know it. The way to win—the way to win—"
"Elder Forsyth would have been a persecutor in old times. He has the face of one."
"When I am dead say, 'He was a failure, and none knew it more truly or felt it more bitterly than himself.' Be merciful to the failures, Emily. Satirize wickedness if you must—but pity weakness."
"I do not kiss young men. I drew myself up—oh, I was Murray clear through at that moment, all right."
"It was a situation expressly shaped for the heroine—who must, of course, be rescued by the hero."
"I wonder how many of these husbands and wives would like a change?"
"We’re all hungry. We all want some bread of life—but Mr. Sampson can’t give it to us."
"Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while."
"One does not have a great deal of spare time at Aunt Ruth’s."
"The only thing to do is to live in your own."
"I have to write, that is all there is to it."
"There are so many dear, green corners in the Land of Uprightness."
"I’ll never be able to put into words half the charm and devilry of it."
"I know exactly how she would look at Mr. Hardy after she had smashed the vase."
"I scolded her roundly. Really, somebody has to bring Ilse up and nobody but me seems to feel any responsibility in the matter."
"If I fail Aunt Ruth will rub it in to the bone. I must not fail."
"The eye is not satisfied with seeing nor the ear with hearing."
"No homelight has ever gleamed through them in summer dusk or winter darkness."
"A hundred pin-pricks would be harder to put up with than a broken leg."
"If we don’t chase things—sometimes the things following us can catch up."
"It’s a very strange thing that on a sidewalk twelve feet wide you couldn’t get past a man without embracing him."
"I’m going to write a Garden Book in vacation."
"The idea of your wandering over the country alone!"
"That little Starr girl of New Moon is the best conversationalist of any girl of her age I ever met."
"I felt as if I were drinking in some rare, stimulating, mental wine."
"I want to ‘wave my wild tail and walk by my wild lone.’"
"I have no explanation to give to such a question, Aunt Ruth."
"Magic casements opening on the foam of perilous seas, in faërylands forlorn."
"I never got drunk but the whiskey always settled in my knees."
"Blood is always thicker than water. Let an outsider attack—that's all."
"I'll teach people to keep their tongues off the Murrays."
"A fool friend is ten times more dangerous than an enemy."
"I’m afraid he doesn’t know that," said Emily, gravely.
"I’ll create my own atmosphere," said Emily, with a trifle of spirit.
"I can’t leave New Moon—I love it too much—it means too much to me."
"But what are you killing yourself worrying for? Your conscience is clear."
"When people do be after snubbing you, Bridget, pull up your lip, Bridget, pull up your lip."