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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 feel as though someone's handed me the moon... and I don't exactly know what to do with it.
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It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.
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She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.
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It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.
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One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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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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Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.
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You see, she concluded miserably, when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.
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She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.
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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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I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.
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The trouble with you people is that you don't laugh enough.
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If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet,' said Priscilla. Anne glowed. 'I'm so glad you spoke that thought, Priscilla, instead of just thinking it and keeping it to yourself. This world would be a much more interesting place…although it is very interesting, anyhow…if people spoke out their real thoughts.
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Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.
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