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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.
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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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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Some nights are like honey - and some like wine - and some like wormwood.
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You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.
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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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Anne felt instinctively that romance was peeping at her around a corner.
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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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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.
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I must get out all my ambitions and dust them.
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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.
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An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.
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I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla. 'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's is like a red, red rose. Jane's is an apple blossom, pink and wholesome and sweet.' 'And our own is a white violet, with purple streaks in its heart,' finished Priscilla.
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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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Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world can’t make up for the lack of it. ~Aunt Josephine to Anne in Anne Of Green Gables
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Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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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 are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.
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But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?
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