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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 is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.
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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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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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An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.
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She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.
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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.
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Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not yet done with dreams and laughter and the joy of life there were to be future summers for the little stone house meanwhile, it could wait. And over the river in purple durance the echoes bided their time.
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You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.
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To dispair is to turn your back on God.
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Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.
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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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She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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Nothing mattered much to me for a time there, after you told me you could never love me, Anne. There was nobody else -- there never could be anybody else for me but you. I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.
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Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?
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Anne, are you killed?' shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. 'Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed.
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Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.
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Death grows friendlier as we grow older.
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People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.
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