#pearls

After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#inspirational #pearls #pleasures #simple #inspirational

But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected. "I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes—when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables—when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had—when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy." -Anne ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#happiness #pearls #romance #tears #dreams

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth. ↗

— William R. Alger

#dark #even #his #pearls #teeth

Pearls mean tears. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#pearls #tears

I am not gay, I just like pearls. ↗

— Julian Eltinge

#gay #i #i am #just #like

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#men #pearls #swine

He who would search for pearls must dive below. ↗

— John Dryden

#dive #must #pearls #search #who

I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material. ↗

— Emmylou Harris

#band #beads #gives #i #like

The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy. ↗

— Mark Helprin

#away #breaks #floor #hit #human

A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape. ↗

— Paul Scofield

#means #much #painting #pearls #string