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693396a It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it? l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
4e2183b ...I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much. l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
9a16a7f I hate to lend a book I love...it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me... l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
53f702b That is one good thing about this world...there are always sure to be more springs. good-things l-m-montgomery spring L.M. Montgomery
41c9a3d I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart. l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
40397fd Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years. l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
bd4a870 Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have! l-m-montgomery trees L.M. Montgomery
5feceaf Well now, I'd rather have you than a dozen boys, Anne,' said Matthew patting her hand. 'Just mind you that -- rather than a dozen boys. Well now, I guess it wasn't a boy that took the Avery scholarship, was it? It was a girl -- my girl -- my girl that I'm proud of. matthew l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
d3dad2b Even when I'm alone I have real good company -- dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships -- and nice, jolly little times with people. friendship imaginations l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
db4a567 I'm just tired of everything...even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes...echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking. l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
4a7d809 I am well in body although considerably rumpled up in spirit, thank you, ma'am,' said Anne gravely. Then aside to Marilla in an audible whisper, 'There wasn't anything startling in that, was there, Marilla? l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
0b6a093 Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful... friendship l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
8c7347a If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet,' said Priscilla. Anne glowed. 'I'm so glad you spoke that thought, Priscilla, instead of just thinking it and keeping it to yourself. This world would be a much more interesting place...although it is very interesting, anyhow...if people spoke out their real thoughts. l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
50d8024 She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms. solitude l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
c2d3322 It's about Diana,' sobbed Anne luxuriously. 'I love Diana so, Marilla. I cannot ever live without her. But I know very well when we grow up that Diana will get married and go away and leave me. And oh, what shall I do? I hate her husband -- I just hate him furiously. I've been imagining it all out -- the wedding and everything -- Diana dressed in snowy white garments, and a veil, and looking as beautiful and regal as a queen; and me the bridesmaid, with a lovely dress, too, and puffed sleeves, but with a breaking heart hid beneath my smiling face. And then bidding Diana good-bye-e-e--' Here Anne broke down entirely and wept with increasing bitterness. Marilla turned quickly away to hide her twitching face, but it was no use; she collapsed on the nearest chair and burst into such a hearty and unusual peal of laughter... l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
2e5646a I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla. 'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's is like a red, red rose. Jane's is an apple blossom, pink and wholesome and sweet.' 'And your own is a white violet, with purple streaks in its heart,' finished Priscilla. l-m-montgomery souls L.M. Montgomery
be4f24c "But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my dreams have that I mustn't complain. Am I all ready now?" fiction dimples anne-shirley l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
78f7ebe "I guess you've got a spice of temper," commented Mr. Harrison, surveying the flushed cheeks and indignant eyes opposite him. "It goes with hair like yours, I reckon" spirit l-m-montgomery redheads temper L.M. Montgomery
ca0b70b You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you. l-m-montgomery growing-up L.M. Montgomery
012b695 It's the worst kind of cruelty -- the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it. l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
6613a75 Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality. motherhood l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
a6dc42e "Oh, we're very careful, Marilla. And it's so interesting. Two flashes means, "Are you there?" Three means "yes" and four "no." Five means, "Come over as soon as possible, because I have something important to reveal." Diana has just signalled five flashes, and I'm really suffering to know what it is." l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
ccfcb94 ...determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted. l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
4f468bd You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible. italics l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
2f5489d But maybe everything'll go all right. In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take what ever God sends. hope l-m-montgomery prepare L.M. Montgomery
6f82ef6 "Some are born old maids, some achieve old maidenhood, and some have old maidenhood thrust upon them ," parodied Miss Lavendar whimsically." l-m-montgomery wise L.M. Montgomery
fd39642 "Afterall," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string." ~ Anne, Anne of Avonlea, Chap. 19" l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
8cd0dcf "Afterall," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string." ~ Anne, Anne of Avonlea, Chap. 19" -- l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
08f4d14 I'm so glad you're here, Anne,' said Miss Lavendar, nibbling at her candy. 'If you weren't I should be blue...very blue...almost navy blue. Dreams and make-believes are all very well in the daytime and the sunshine, but when dark and storm come they fail to satisfy. One wants real things then. But you don't know this...seventeen never knows it. At seventeen dreams do satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you further on. l-m-montgomery seventeen L.M. Montgomery
39e5c47 We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word; and I hope it will always be so. But things can't be quite the same after this. You'll have other interests. I'll just be on the outside. l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
765a8bc "The dark hills, with the darker spruces marching over them, looked grim on early falling nights, but Ingleside bloomed with firelight and laughter, though the winds come in from the Atlantic singing of mournful things. "Why isn't the wind happy, Mummy?" asked Walter one night. "Because it is remembering all the sorrow of the world since it began," answered Anne." l-m-montgomery wise weather L.M. Montgomery
ead0e59 It makes me very sad at times to think about her. But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one? l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
55b5f00 I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you. l-m-montgomery cows L.M. Montgomery
2d44abf ...I'm sorry, and a little dissatisfied as well. Miss Stacy told me long ago that by the time I was twenty my character would be formed, for good or evil. I don't feel that it's what it should be. It's full of flaws.' 'So's everybody's,' said Aunt Jamesina cheerfully. 'Mine's cracked in a hundred places. Your Miss Stacy likely meant that when you are twenty your character would have got its permanent bent in one direction or 'tother, and would go on developing in that line. l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
8639b8b That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them l-m-montgomery growing-up L. M. Montgomery
09a12a3 "Do you know, Mrs. Allan, I'm thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much." "True friendship is a very helpful thing indeed," said Mrs. Allan, "and we should have a very high ideal of it , and never sully it by any failure in truth and sincerity. I fear the name of friendship is often degraded to a kind of intimacy that had nothing of real friendship in it." friends beauty friendship l-m-montgomery thankfulness L.M. Montgomery
7f8ab7a We always hate people who surprise our secrets... l-m-montgomery secrets L.M. Montgomery
d6b5756 Why should one hate you when you were so small? Could you be worth hating? l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
41517f8 We _are_ rich,' said Anne staunchly. 'Why, we have sixteen years to our credit, and we are as happy as queens and we've all got imaginations, more or less. Look at that sea, girls - all silver and shallow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds. wealth youth l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
2211229 Heaven must be very beautiful, of course, the Bible says so -- but, Anne, it won't be what I've been used to. heaven l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
74ccbb7 "We... Charlotta the Fourth and I... live in defiance of every known law of diet." ~ Miss Lavendar, chap 27" humor l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
e4a92ff "...And every day in heaven will be more beautiful than the one before it Davy," assured Anne." heaven beauty l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
fbab48f It's a very bad habit to put off disagreeable things... bad-habits disagreeable l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
03b4fd1 "I can't understand how she could have wanted to live back here, away from everything," said Jane. "Oh, I can easily understand that," said Anne thoughtfully. "I wouldn't want it myself for a steady thing because, although I love the fields and woods, I love people too..." people l-m-montgomery fields woods home L.M. Montgomery
2563d04 The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not. l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
9c7c6a3 ...hate's got to be a disease with me. l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
6703150 I wonder if perfume could set a man drunk. love kilmeny-of-the-orchard l-m-montgomery perfume L M Montgomery
015b2f4 "...and he wasn't reconciled to dying. Dora told him he was going to a better world. "Mebbe, mebbe," says poor Ben, "but I'm sorter used to the imperfections of this one." l-m-montgomery L.M. Montgomery
67ebb5c Once upon a time--which, when you come to think of it, is really the only proper way to begin a story--the only way that really smacks of romance and fairyland-- magic l-m-montgomery fairy-tale storytelling L.M. Montgomery
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