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Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.
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'm just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking.
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I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more 'scope for imagination' without them. And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter. We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each other—and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.
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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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Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it.
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Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?
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People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.
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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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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 have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.
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There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.
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Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.
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Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.
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True friends are always together in spirit.
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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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The trouble with you people is that you don't laugh enough.
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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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I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!
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