There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYOh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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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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Heretics are wicked, but they’re mighty int’resting. It’s jest that they’ve got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He’s hard to find – which He ain’t never.
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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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?
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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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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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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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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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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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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It’s so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven’t you?
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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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