We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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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I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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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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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn’t it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about?
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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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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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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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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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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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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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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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