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She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.
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've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.
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She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
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People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.
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I feel as though someone's handed me the moon... and I don't exactly know what to do with it.
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It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.
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I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.
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Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins! (Anne to Gilbert)
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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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Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.
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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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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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Anne felt instinctively that romance was peeping at her around a corner.
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Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.
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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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Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence.
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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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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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It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?
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