Don’t look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can’t be sober and serious – everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYIt’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?
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen … wonderful things.
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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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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain’t never likely to be sly or deceitful.
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Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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Gilbert put his arm about them. ‘Oh, you mothers!’ he said. ‘You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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