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Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.

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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Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to find - which He ain't never.
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But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.
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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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As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
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You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.
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I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.
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She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.
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if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.
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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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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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You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.
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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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[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.
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Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.
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Make them do as you want them to, she said. I can’t, mourned Anne. Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again.
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Some nights are like honey - and some like wine - and some like wormwood.
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There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.
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Since ever the world was spinning And till the world shall end You've your man in the beginning Or you have him in the end, But to have him from start to finish And neither nor borrow nor lend Is what all of the girls are wanting And none of the gods can send
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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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I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.
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