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.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYYouth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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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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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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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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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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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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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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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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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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I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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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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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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