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I love to smell flowers in the dark, she said. You get hold of their soul then.
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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But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.
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Make them do as you want them to, she said. I can’t, mourned Anne. Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again.
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Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have sprained my ankle. But, Marilla, I might have broken my neck. Let us look on the bright side of things.
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She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.
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It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.
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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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It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?
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That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself. Thank you, Diana.
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If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.
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There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.
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Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?
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You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?
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