Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Avonlea (1909)

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But I'd rather look like you than be pretty," she told Anne sincerely. Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting.

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Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

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There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.

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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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She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.

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There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.

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But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.

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I detest that woman more than anybody I know. She can put a whole sermon, text, comment, and application, into six words, and throw it at you like a brick.

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Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.

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You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair." — Anne Shirley

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But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?

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