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You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.
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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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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The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope big stars were shining over the silent fields here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them.
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I've had a splendid time, she concluded happily, and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.
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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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There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.
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Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.
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It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow good advice is apt to be, I think.
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That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.
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Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!
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The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for the highest must be sought and followed the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.
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She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.
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Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.
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Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world!
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She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.
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But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress - because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while.
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It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?
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never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.
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I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.
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Nothing mattered much to me for a time there, after you told me you could never love me, Anne. There was nobody else -- there never could be anybody else for me but you. I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.
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Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.
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