Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYI have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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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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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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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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I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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