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I am simply a book drunkard.
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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It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.
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never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.
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You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?
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She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.
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In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you
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I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.
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We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.
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It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't 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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You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.
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He had also the reputation of being a bit of a lady killer. But that probably accrued to him from his possession of a laughing, velvety voice which no girl could hear without a heartbeat, and a dangerous way of listening as if she were saying something that he had longed all his life to hear.
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But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.
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Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.
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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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I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry. - Martin Harris
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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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I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more 'scope for imagination' without them. And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter. We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each other—and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.
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You were never poor as long as you had something to love.
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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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I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.
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