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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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Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence.
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You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.
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I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.
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You were never poor as long as you had something to love.
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Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.
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Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.
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They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?
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You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.
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I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!
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Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!
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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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I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea, said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. And asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know.
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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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I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla. 'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's is like a red, red rose. Jane's is an apple blossom, pink and wholesome and sweet.' 'And our own is a white violet, with purple streaks in its heart,' finished Priscilla.
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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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The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.
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But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?
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if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.
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She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.
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The woods are never solitary--they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity.
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