She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.
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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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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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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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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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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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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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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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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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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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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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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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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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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