I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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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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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.
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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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She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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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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There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I’ll be through with them. That’s a comforting thought
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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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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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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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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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