# Epigraph explained — Anne of the Island

> Chapter companion for Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery.

## What happens

The epigraph sets a reflective tone for the book, suggesting that love and fate work together to reveal hidden value over time.

## Themes in this chapter

### Love and Marriage

The epigraph introduces love as a force that, with fate, uncovers hidden worth.

## Key lines

> All precious things discovered late To those that seek them issue forth, For Love in sequel works with Fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth.

Valuable things are found only after patient searching, and love, working alongside destiny, reveals what was once hidden.

_The epigraph foreshadows themes of delayed recognition and the interplay of love and fate._

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