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I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!
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 love to smell flowers in the dark, she said. You get hold of their soul then.
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I love pretty things and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.
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I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.
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They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?
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That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.
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I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.
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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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You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.
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…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.
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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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Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below.
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You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?
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I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.
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Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?
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It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?
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My pen shall heal, not hurt.
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Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths.
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The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.
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I've had a splendid time, she concluded happily, and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.
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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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