Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERYI hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
More Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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One can’t get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.
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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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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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Some nights are like honey – and some like wine – and some like wormwood.
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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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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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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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most people worry so much, they think you’re not right if you don’t worry.
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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 are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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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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