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 MONTGOMERYFancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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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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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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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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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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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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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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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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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
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