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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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New London
Prince Edward Island
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I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!
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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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[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.
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Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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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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brains last, beauty doesn't.
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I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse
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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 know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.
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Yes, it's beautiful,' said Gilbert, looking steadily down into Anne's uplifted face, 'but wouldn't it have been more beautiful still, Anne, if there had been no separation or misunderstanding . . . if they had come hand in hand all the way through life, with no memories behind them but those which belonged to each other?
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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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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.
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You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.
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Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below.
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I love to smell flowers in the dark, she said. You get hold of their soul then.
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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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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.
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She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.
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