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Words aren't made — they grow,' said 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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My pen shall heal, not hurt.
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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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She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.
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True friends are always together in spirit.
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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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Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.
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Anne, are you killed?' shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. 'Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed.
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I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.
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I am simply a book drunkard.
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We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word and I hope it will always be so. But things can't be quite the same after this. You'll have other interests. I'll just be on the outside.
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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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I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.
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I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.
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I must get out all my ambitions and dust them.
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She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.
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Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?
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Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.
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Since ever the world was spinning And till the world shall end You've your man in the beginning Or you have him in the end, But to have him from start to finish And neither nor borrow nor lend Is what all of the girls are wanting And none of the gods can send
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Nothing worth while is every easy come by.
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