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.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYDear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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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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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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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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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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How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.
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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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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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Maples are such sociable trees … They’re always rustling and whispering to you.
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She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend – as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn’t it?
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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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