The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster Quotes

“Never lower yourself for others. Make them rise to you. Whether they can or not is their burden, not yours.”
― Scott Wilbanks, The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster

“A dream is a slippery thing, plucking and bending and toying with our memories, sometimes acting as a bridge between the living, the loved, and the loved no-longer-living, but more often than not acting as a lesson not quite learned.”
― Scott Wilbanks, The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster

“Albert Einstein said coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.”
― Scott Wilbanks, The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster

“P.S. I offer a topic for discussion. The past is nothing more than the present romanticized, while the future is history with imagination. Any thoughts?”
― Scott Wilbanks, The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster

“Promise me you won’t sacrifice your happiness for something so cheap as acceptance. Find your courage.”
― Scott Wilbanks, The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster

“LEM-ON-CHOLY

noun (lim-uhn-kol-ee)

plural lem-on-chol-ies

1. The habitual state in which one makes the best of a bad situation.

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Word Origin & History

circa: yesterday, a fabrication of the author’s twisted mind that combines the phrase “if life gives you lemons” with the word melancholy to represent the state of being in which one makes the best of a bad situation.

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― Scott Wilbanks, The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster

“And that’s why I love you,” she said, smiling. “Because occasionally, and quite unexpectedly, you sound like a sonnet.”
― Scott Wilbanks, The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster

“Perhaps, that is the way of friends, to love one another for their imperfections, not despite them.”
― Scott Wilbanks, The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster

“Am I a ghost, you ask? I'm certainly old. Perhaps even a bit dusty. But I think not. How can one be sure, however? Would a ghost know itself to be such? What a poor state for one, if it is required to carry into the beyond every ache and pain earned in life. I snap and pop with every movement, an uncongenial condition for haunting.”
― Scott Wilbanks, The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster

“She waded through the letter like a guilty pleasure, torn between annoyance and enchantment with Miss Aster's obvious enthusiasm.”
― Scott Wilbanks, The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster

“...it was something my Auntie Liza said many years ago that changed forever the way I thought of words. "If the command of language dictates the elegance of our thoughts," she said, tapping my nose for attention, "then those which people think today must be dull, indeed.”
― Scott Wilbanks, The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster

“The fact that her life was unremarkable made it no less real.”
― Scott Wilbanks, The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster

“There's comes a moment, a precise instant, when your next move redefines you, erasing everything before it. You are a tablet upon which the future course of your life awaits instructions.”
― Scott Wilbanks, The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster

“Never lower yourself to others. Make them rise to you. Whether they can or not is their burden, not yours.”
― Scott Wilbanks, The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster

“The past is nothing more than the present romanticized, while the future is history with imagination.”
― Scott Wilbanks, The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster

“Perhaps that is the way of friends, to love one another for their imperfections, not despite them.”
― Scott Wilbanks, The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster

“Honeysuckle vines are the gates to the fairy kingdom.”
― Scott Wilbanks, The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster