She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYIn 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
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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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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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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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’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
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trees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. No matter how much you like them at the start you are sure to like them much better further on, and best of all when you have known them for years and enjoyed intercourse with them in all seasons.
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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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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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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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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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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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