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You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.
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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Prince Edward Island
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We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
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I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.
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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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But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.
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But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?
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There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.
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I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.
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But I'd rather look like you than be pretty, she told Anne sincerely. Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting.
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Some nights are like honey - and some like wine - and some like wormwood.
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Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously.
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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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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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Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.
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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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That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.
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I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
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“You 're not eating anything,” said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. “I can 't. I'm in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?”
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...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.
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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.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly.
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