I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYOne can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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Don’t look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can’t be sober and serious – everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.
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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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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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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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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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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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Gilbert put his arm about them. ‘Oh, you mothers!’ he said. ‘You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.
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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 afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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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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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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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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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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