I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
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Fancies are like shadows…you can’t cage them, they’re such wayward, dancing things.
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It’s the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can’t cope with it.
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Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.
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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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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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Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
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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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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
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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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I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it?
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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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Life, deal gently with her … Love, never desert her
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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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That is one good thing about this world – there are always sure to be more springs.
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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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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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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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I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
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Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne.
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She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
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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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I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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