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“Well, that is another hope gone. ‘My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.’ That’s a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it over to comfort myself whenever I’m disappointed in anything.”
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Does anyone know if the quoted line ('My life...') comes from some other text, or is the source fictional? A quick search on the 'net seems to have most people attributing the quote to L.M. Montgomery.
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I read of a girl once in a novel who had a lifelong sorrow but it wasn’t red hair. Her hair was pure gold rippling back from her alabaster brow.
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which is less specific and I figured was probably just a general fairytale reference. And later there is a Shakespearean reference (a rose by any other name). Anne appears to have been a remarkably well read 11yo.