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…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.

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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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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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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Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.
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You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.
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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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She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.
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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 couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.
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One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.
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Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?
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I must get out all my ambitions and dust them.
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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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The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope big stars were shining over the silent fields here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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I wonder if it will be—can be—any more beautiful than this,’ murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptured eyes of those to whom ‘home’ must always be the loveliest spot in the world, no matter what fairer lands may lie under alien stars.
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Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.
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Few things in Avonlea ever escaped Mrs. Lynde. It was only that morning Anne had said, If you went to your own room at midnight, locked the door, pulled down the blind, and sneezed, Mrs. Lynde would ask you the next day how your cold was!
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