The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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
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When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?
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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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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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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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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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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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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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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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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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