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To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!
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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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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Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.
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Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.
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The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for the highest must be sought and followed the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.
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It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.
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if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.
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Yes, it's beautiful,' said Gilbert, looking steadily down into Anne's uplifted face, 'but wouldn't it have been more beautiful still, Anne, if there had been no separation or misunderstanding . . . if they had come hand in hand all the way through life, with no memories behind them but those which belonged to each other?
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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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A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.
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I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.
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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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What is it really like to be engaged? asked Anne curiously. Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to, answered Diana, with that maddening air of superior wisdom always assumed by those who are engaged over those who are not.
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All things great are wound up with all things little.
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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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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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It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.
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Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world!
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Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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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I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.
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