Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYIt’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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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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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.
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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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I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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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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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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March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.
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There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I’ll be through with them. That’s a comforting thought
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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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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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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