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I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
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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There is no such thing as freedom on earth, he said. Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage.
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Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.
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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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It's great to be great, but it's great to be human.
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Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.
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Mrs. Cadbury: Tell me what you know about yourself. Anne Shirley: Well, it really isn't worth telling, Mrs. Cadbury... but if you let me tell you what I IMAGINE about myself you'd find it a lot more interesting.
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The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.
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There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.
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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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But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?
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I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.
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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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Death grows friendlier as we grow older.
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Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it.
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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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Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.
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It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.
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To dispair is to turn your back on God.
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Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.
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Love you! Girl, you're in the very core of my heart. I hold you there like a jewel. Didn't I promise you I'd never tell you a lie? Love you! I love you with all there is of me to love. Heart, soul, brain. Every fibre of body and spirit thrilling to the sweetness of you. There's nobody in the world for me but you, Valancy.
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