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The Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all modes and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquillity unbroken by fickle dreams.
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You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.
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You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?
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Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not yet done with dreams and laughter and the joy of life; there were to be future summers for the little stone house; meanwhile, it could wait. And over the river in purple durance the echoes bided their time.
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There was no mistaking her sincerity—it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former understood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation—was reveling in the thoroughness of her abasement. Where was the wholesome punishment upon which she, Marilla, had plumed herself? Anne had turned it into a species of positive pleasure.
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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 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 our own is a white violet, with purple streaks in its heart,' finished Priscilla.
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That's one splendid thing about such affairs — it's so lovely to look back to them.
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Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn't mean to be wicked. It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?
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For there is no bond more lasting than that formed by the mutual confidences of that magic time when youth is slipping from the sheath of childhood and beginning to wonder what lies for it beyond those misty hills that bound the golden road.
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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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The sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.
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I wish I were dead, or that it were tomorrow night,' groaned Phil.
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Anne's horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming home from Queen's; but if the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joys of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams. And there was always the bend in the road!
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In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
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I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.
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Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.
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Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.
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Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?
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Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.
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When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper...and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame.
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Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.
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That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself. Thank you, Diana.
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Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your own.
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It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Born:
November 30, 1874
Died:
April 24, 1942
(aged 67)
Bio:
L.M. Montgomery was the pen name of Lucy Maud Montgomery, a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success.
Known for:
Anne of Avonlea (1909)
Anne of the Island (1915)
Anne's House of Dreams (1917)
Emily of New Moon (1923)
Anne of Windy Poplars (1936)
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