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Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.
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 know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.
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[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.
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I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.
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You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.
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That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.
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Have you ever noticed that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?
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You are the only person who loves me in the world, said Elizabeth. When you talk to me I smell violets.
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We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
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I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry. - Martin Harris
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Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.
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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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...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.
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The greatest happiness is to sneeze when you want to.
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I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.
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Anne felt instinctively that romance was peeping at her around a corner.
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Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?
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It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.
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There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.
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I feel as though someone's handed me the moon... and I don't exactly know what to do with it.
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Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.
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