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if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.

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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New London
Prince Edward Island
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Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.
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The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.
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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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Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?
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It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen ... wonderful things.
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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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Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously.
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Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.
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never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.
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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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You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.
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One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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The greatest happiness is to sneeze when you want to.
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Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
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You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair, said Anne reproachfully. People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.
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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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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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It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.
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There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.
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Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!
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