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I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Age: 67 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1942
Died: April 24
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Prince Edward Island
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In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
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[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.
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Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins! (Anne to Gilbert)
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Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.
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…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.
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Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?
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she was richer in those dreams than in realities for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
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Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.
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I love pretty things and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.
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You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair. — Anne Shirley
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I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths.
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Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.
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When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.
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never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.
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I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse
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He had also the reputation of being a bit of a lady killer. But that probably accrued to him from his possession of a laughing, velvety voice which no girl could hear without a heartbeat, and a dangerous way of listening as if she were saying something that he had longed all his life to hear.
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Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.
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