Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of the Island (1915)

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We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

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I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.

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It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.

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I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.

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After all," 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.

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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful…

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You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.

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All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.

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I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.

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Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways.

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An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.

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What is it really like to be engaged?" asked Anne curiously. "Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to," answered Diana, with that maddening air of superior wisdom always assumed by those who are engaged over those who are not.

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People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.

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I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.

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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.

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I wish I were dead, or that it were tomorrow night,' groaned Phil.

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Rilla's heart skipped a beat - or, if that be a pysiological impossibility, she thought it did.

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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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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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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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There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves—so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful.

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Besides, I've been feeling a little blue — just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker.

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There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.

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Welcome, Anne. I thought you'd come today. You belong to the afternoon so it brought you. Things that belong together are sure to come together. What a lot of trouble that would save some people if they only knew it. But they don't...and so they waste beautiful energy moving heaven and earth to bring things together that don't belong.

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I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.

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She was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

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Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.

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All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.

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I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.

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I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)

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