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To dispair is to turn your back on God.

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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You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair. — Anne Shirley
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Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.
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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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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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It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.
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You see, she concluded miserably, when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.
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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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She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.
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All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.
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if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.
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I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.
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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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