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Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.

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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Have you ever noticed that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?
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Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.
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Few things in Avonlea ever escaped Mrs. Lynde. It was only that morning Anne had said, If you went to your own room at midnight, locked the door, pulled down the blind, and sneezed, Mrs. Lynde would ask you the next day how your cold was!
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I've had a splendid time, she concluded happily, and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.
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There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.
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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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But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.
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To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!
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Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.
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Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?
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Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways.
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Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world can’t make up for the lack of it. ~Aunt Josephine to Anne in Anne Of Green Gables
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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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I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.
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[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.
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People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is.
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But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?
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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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Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
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