She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYWhat had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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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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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’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to 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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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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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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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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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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I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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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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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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