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.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYI’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it?
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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend – as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
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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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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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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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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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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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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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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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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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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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