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.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYMaples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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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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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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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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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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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 hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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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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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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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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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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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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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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