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.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYMy life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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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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Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
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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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There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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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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I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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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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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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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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We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.
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