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She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.
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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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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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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Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.
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Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.
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What is it really like to be engaged? asked Anne curiously. Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to, answered Diana, with that maddening air of superior wisdom always assumed by those who are engaged over those who are not.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.
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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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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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I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!
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He had also the reputation of being a bit of a lady killer. But that probably accrued to him from his possession of a laughing, velvety voice which no girl could hear without a heartbeat, and a dangerous way of listening as if she were saying something that he had longed all his life to hear.
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Nothing mattered much to me for a time there, after you told me you could never love me, Anne. There was nobody else -- there never could be anybody else for me but you. I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.
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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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When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.
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She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.
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If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet,' said Priscilla. Anne glowed. 'I'm so glad you spoke that thought, Priscilla, instead of just thinking it and keeping it to yourself. This world would be a much more interesting place…although it is very interesting, anyhow…if people spoke out their real thoughts.
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We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.
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Dogs want only love but cats demand worship.
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The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.
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