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You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.
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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When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.
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It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.
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You see, she concluded miserably, when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.
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We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word and I hope it will always be so. But things can't be quite the same after this. You'll have other interests. I'll just be on the outside.
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They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?
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Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
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It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.
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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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Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.
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She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
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When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud. But really, Marilla, the flying part is glorious as long as it lasts. . . it's like soaring through a sunset. I think it almost pays for the thud.
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.
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Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously.
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