Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Windy Poplars (1936)

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Sarcasm... raised blisters on her soul that smarted for months.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
It was really dreadful to be so different from other people…and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I remembered Elizabeth had never laughed once during our talk. I feel that she hasn't learned how. The great house is so still and lonely and laughterless. It looks dull and gloomy even now when the world is a riot of autumn color. Little Elizabeth is doing too much listening to lost whispers.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Be the day short or be the day long, at last it weareth to evening song.

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But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them.

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Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it…

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I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your own.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Isn't it queer that the things we writhe over at night are seldom wicked things? Just humiliating ones.

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In daylight I belong to the world... in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself... and you.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!

Lucy Maud Montgomery
But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible... and good? What would we find to talk about?

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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…

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Heaven grant me patience! Clothes are very important," said Anne severely

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Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.

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It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen... wonderful things.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.

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They did not talk or want to talk. It was as if they were afraid to talk for fear of spoiling something beautiful. But Anne had never felt so near Katherine Brooke before. By some magic of its own the winter night had brought them together... almost together but not quite.

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I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.

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Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!" (Anne to Gilbert)

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