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There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)

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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Prince Edward Island
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Nothing mattered much to me for a time there, after you told me you could never love me, Anne. There was nobody else -- there never could be anybody else for me but you. I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.
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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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You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.
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I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.
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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'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
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Anne felt instinctively that romance was peeping at her around a corner.
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Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.
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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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That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.
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“You 're not eating anything,” said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. “I can 't. I'm in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?”
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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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Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways.
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Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.
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Death grows friendlier as we grow older.
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I'm just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking.
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