Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYShe had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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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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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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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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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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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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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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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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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 shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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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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