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Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?
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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You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.
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It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?
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Rilla's heart skipped a beat — or, if that be a physiological impossibility, she thought it did.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.
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He had also the reputation of being a bit of a lady killer. But that probably accrued to him from his possession of a laughing, velvety voice which no girl could hear without a heartbeat, and a dangerous way of listening as if she were saying something that he had longed all his life to hear.
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Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?
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She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.
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I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.
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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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We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.
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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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The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.
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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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People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.
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[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.
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But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress - because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while.
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Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.
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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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You are the only person who loves me in the world, said Elizabeth. When you talk to me I smell violets.
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