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I am well in body although considerable rumpled up in spirit.
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 don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.
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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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There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.
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There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen.
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Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?
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That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself. Thank you, Diana.
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Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.
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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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There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves--so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful.
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I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.
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…always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches had hurt her in her own sorrow and was afraid.
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I have a dream, he said slowly. I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends -- and YOU!
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But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?
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After all, Anne had said to Marilla once, I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.
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Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.
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I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.
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You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.
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