There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYSome nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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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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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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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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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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I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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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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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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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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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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