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
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYDear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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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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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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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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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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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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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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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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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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