My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYHeretics 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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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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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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But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn’t it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about?
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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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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 have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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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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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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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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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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