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My pen shall heal, not hurt.
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'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.
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What is it really like to be engaged? asked Anne curiously. Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to, answered Diana, with that maddening air of superior wisdom always assumed by those who are engaged over those who are not.
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Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.
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Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world!
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Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?
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Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.
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Some nights are like honey - and some like wine - and some like wormwood.
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The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.
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Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence.
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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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Tears don't hurt like the ache does.
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Jane's stories are extremely sensible. Then Diana puts too many murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.
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she was richer in those dreams than in realities for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
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I'd like to add some beauty to life, said Anne dreamily. I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.
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let's not borrow trouble. The rate of interest is too high.
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People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking 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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You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.
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It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?
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You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.
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