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.
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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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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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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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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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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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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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’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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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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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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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’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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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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