Quotes by L.M. Montgomery

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I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence something to thank God for. I suppose our 'blues' are the price we have to pay for our temperament. 'The gods don't allow us to b...

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[...] I grew up out of that strange, dreamy childhood of mine and went into the world of reality. I met with experiences that bruised my spirit - but they never harmed my ideal world. That was always mine to retreat into at will. I learned that that ...

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How terrible it must be not to see and feel beauty.... I'm so glad I can find happiness in all lovely little things... It seems to me that every time I look out of a window the world gives me a gift.

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You've all been so sure that life is good that I've never been able to disbelieve it. Never will be able to.

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And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.

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Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.

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Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.

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I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

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A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it ...

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I never hear about dear Mike. I wrote Ellen Greene and asked about him and she replyed and never mentioned Mike but told me all about her roomatism. As if I cared about her roomatism.

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I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.

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In this life you've got to hope for the best, prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

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We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.

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Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.

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Everybody has. It wouldn't do for us to have all our dreams fulfilled. We would be as good as dead if we had nothing left to dream about.

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Mrs. Binnie says we throw out more with a spoon than the men can be bringing in with a shovel...Binnie-like. Our men like the good living. And what if we don't be having too much money, Patsy dear? Sure and we do have lashings of things no money coul...

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A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter.

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Oh, here we are at the bridge. I'm going to shut my eyes tight. I'm always afraid going over bridges. I can't help imagining that perhaps, just as we get to the middle, they'll crumple up like a jackknife and nip us. So I shut my eyes. But I always h...

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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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Outside in the garden, which was full of mellow sunset light streaming through the dark old firs to the west of it, stood Anne and Diana, gazing bashfully at each other over a clump of gorgeous tiger lilies.

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Just as soon as I meet and learn to love a friend we must part and go our separate ways, never to meet on quite the same ground again. For, disguise the fact as we will, when friends, even the closest-and perhaps the more so on account of that very c...

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