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People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is.
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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Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence.
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After all, Anne had said to Marilla once, I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.
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My pen shall heal, not hurt.
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She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.
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Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.
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…the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all modes and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquillity unbroken by fickle dreams.
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Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.
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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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There is no such thing as freedom on earth, he said. Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage.
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It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?
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People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.
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Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.
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I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.
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As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
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Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.
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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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A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.
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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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…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.
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The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.
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