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…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.

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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New London
Prince Edward Island
Lucy Maud Montgomery Macdonald
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I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.
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I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.
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I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!
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