Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of the Island (1915)

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We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.

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Was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?

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It was November—the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland alleys in the park and, as she said, let that great sweeping wind blow the fogs out of her soul.

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It's so dreadful to have nothing to love — life is so empty — and there's nothing worse than emptiness…

Lucy Maud Montgomery
It is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by a happiness that is not your own.

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The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.

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I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. [....] Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more 'scope for imagination' without them. And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter. We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each other—and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.

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It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you.

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Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.

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Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
That's one of the things we learn as we grow older — how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

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