I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYHow fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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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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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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