Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Avonlea (1909)

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I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.

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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.

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I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.

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It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?

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You're never safe from being surprised till you're dead.

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Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

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Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.

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Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them— that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

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I've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

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It's so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.

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It would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine

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Gilbert took from his desk a little pink candy heart with a gold motto on it, You are sweet, and slipped it under the curve of Anne's arm. Whereupon Anne arose, took the pink heart gingerly between the tips of her fingers, dropped it on the floor, ground it to powder beneath her heel, and resumed her position without deigning to bestow a glance on Gilbert.

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I've had a splendid time," she concluded happily, "and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.

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She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.

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

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Oh, but there's such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it,' wailed Anne. 'You may know a thing is so, but you can't help hoping other people don't quite think it is.

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One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.

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Yes, it's beautiful,' said Gilbert, looking steadily down into Anne's uplifted face, 'but wouldn't it have been more beautiful still, Anne, if there had been no separation or misunderstanding... if they had come hand in hand all the way through life, with no memories behind them but those which belonged to each other?

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People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

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Having adventures comes natural to some people. You just have a gift for them or you haven't.

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I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.

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When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.

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Anne "felt instinctively" that romance was peeping at her around a corner.

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Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.

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A little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world.

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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?

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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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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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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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I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.

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