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Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . perhaps . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.L.m. Montgomery

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Anne laughed." I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you.L.m. Montgomery

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And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.L.m. Montgomery
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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.L.m. Montgomery

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Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.L.m. Montgomery

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You see, " she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space-- I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.L.m. Montgomery

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Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?L.m. Montgomery

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Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.L.m. Montgomery

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Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?L.m. Montgomery

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Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.L.m. Montgomery
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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.L.m. Montgomery
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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.L.m. Montgomery

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I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.L.m. Montgomery

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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.L.m. Montgomery

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I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.L.m. Montgomery
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When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.L.m. Montgomery
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In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn, " where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.L.m. Montgomery
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You're not eating anything, " said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. I can't. I'm in the depths of despair. Can you eat whenyou are in the depths of despair?" I've never been in the depths of despair, so I can't say, " responded Marilla. Weren't you? Well, did you ever try to IMAGINE you were inthe depths of despair?" No, I didn't." Then I don't think you can understand what it's like. It's very uncomfortable a feeling indeed. .L.m. Montgomery

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Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.L.m. Montgomery

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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?L.m. Montgomery