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You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

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I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

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Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

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Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have! ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

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She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#loneliness #dreams

It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up,' laughed Anne. 'That's a true word, dearie. Some are grown up when they're born, and others ain't grown up when they're eighty, believe me. That same Mrs. Roderick I was speaking of never grew up. She was as foolish when she was hundred as when she was ten.' 'Perhaps that was why she lived so long,' suggested Anne. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#dreams

That's one splendid thing about such affairs — it's so lovely to look back to them. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#love

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

— L.M. Montgomery

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But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my dreams have that I mustn't complain. Am I all ready now? ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

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But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you? ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

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