I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYDon’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.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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.
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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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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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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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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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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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I do know my own mind,’ protested Anne. ‘The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.
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Heretics are wicked, but they’re mighty int’resting. It’s jest that they’ve got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He’s hard to find – which He ain’t never.
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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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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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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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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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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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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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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?
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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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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I’ll be through with them. That’s a comforting thought
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