Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYOh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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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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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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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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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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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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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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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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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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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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