It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYMy life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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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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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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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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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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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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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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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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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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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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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 have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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