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never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.
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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You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.
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An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.
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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.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.
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When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud. But really, Marilla, the flying part is glorious as long as it lasts. . . it's like soaring through a sunset. I think it almost pays for the thud.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.
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Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
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I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.
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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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I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.
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Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.
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That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.
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It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.
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You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?
Lucy Maud Montgomery
We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow good advice is apt to be, I think.
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