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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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I have a dream, he said slowly. I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends -- and YOU!
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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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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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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?
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We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?
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A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.
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Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.
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That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.
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It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.
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I love to smell flowers in the dark, she said. You get hold of their soul then.
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As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
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You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.
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…always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches had hurt her in her own sorrow and was afraid.
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I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.
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I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.
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It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.
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I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.
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You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.
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Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!
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