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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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I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.
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You are the only person who loves me in the world, said Elizabeth. When you talk to me I smell violets.
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Make them do as you want them to, she said. I can’t, mourned Anne. Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again.
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I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.
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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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Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?
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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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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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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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I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.
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…always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches had hurt her in her own sorrow and was afraid.
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“You 're not eating anything,” said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. “I can 't. I'm in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?”
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The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.
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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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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.
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The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.
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All things great are wound up with all things little.
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Tears don't hurt like the ache does.
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Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.
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She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.
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