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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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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Night Sleep World
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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Arms Made Mother People
Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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Dance Fancy Shadow
I’m afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We’ve got to face the fact. (Walter)
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Come Face Fact World
What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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Easy Imagination Reality
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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Get Harder Satisfaction
We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
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Ambition Anxiety Self
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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Mind Own Trouble
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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Half Interest Language
Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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Anticipation Forward Half Look
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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Long Memories Remember
Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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Being Goodness Montgomery Thankful
Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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Forever Heart Vanish Youth
My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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Hope Life Perfect
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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Forward Future Mistake Regret
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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Emotion Enjoy People Quiet Talk

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