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Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world!
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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An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.
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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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All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.
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Make them do as you want them to, she said. I can’t, mourned Anne. Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again.
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You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.
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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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Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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I am simply a book drunkard.
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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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People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is.
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But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress - because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while.
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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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[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.
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People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.
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Tears don't hurt like the ache does.
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One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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let's not borrow trouble. The rate of interest is too high.
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