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.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYThat is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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’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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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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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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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain’t never likely to be sly or deceitful.
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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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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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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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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We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
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It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen … wonderful things.
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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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 not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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