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?
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYThank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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 hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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trees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. No matter how much you like them at the start you are sure to like them much better further on, and best of all when you have known them for years and enjoyed intercourse with them in all seasons.
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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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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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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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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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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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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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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When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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