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.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYI 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.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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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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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t 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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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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Anne, are you killed?’ shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. ‘Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you’re killed.
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It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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