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 hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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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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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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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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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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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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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 are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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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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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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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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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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