Gilbert put his arm about them. ‘Oh, you mothers!’ he said. ‘You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYNothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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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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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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Don’t look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can’t be sober and serious – everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.
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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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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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I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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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 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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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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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 have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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