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Death grows friendlier as we grow older.
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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I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.
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I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.
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The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.
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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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Some nights are like honey - and some like wine - and some like wormwood.
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You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair. — Anne Shirley
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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 know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.
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There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.
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We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?
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In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
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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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The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.
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You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.
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That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.
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But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress - because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while.
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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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I have a dream, he said slowly. I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends -- and YOU!
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