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Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery, OBE (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L.M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. The central character, Anne Shirley, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following.

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A girl who would fall in love so easily or want a man to love her so easily would probably get over it just as quickly, very little the worse for wear. On the contrary, a girl who would take love seriously would probably be a good while finding herself in love and would require something beyond mere friendly attentions from a man before she would think of him in that light.

Falling In Love, Girl, Good, Men, Think

I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea," said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. "And asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know.

Asking, Eye, Know, Sitting Down, Table, Tea

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.

Believe, Bend, Like, Lying, Queens, Thought

They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?

Coming, Growing Up, Serious Things, Settle, Thinking, Thought

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.

Beautiful, Inspiration, Morning, Sometime, Wonderful

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.

Easier, Hair, Know, People, Red, Trouble

There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.

Hours, Loneliness, Lonely, Might, Wonderful

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.

Cry, Feet, Forgotten, Patronised, People, Somebody

People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

Express, Ideas, Laugh, Laughing, People

It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.

Bring, Graduation, Green Gables, Holds, World

It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.

Knows, Points, Puffed, Stupidity, Vanity

Isn't it terrible the way some unworthy folks are loved, while others that deserve it far more, you'd think, never get much affection?

Affection, Deserve, Folks, Thinking, Way

I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.

Asks, Know, Knows, Like, Love, Worse

If any person wants to see clearly just how much she has changed - whether for better or worse - let her revisit after some lapse of time any place where she has ones lived. She will meet her former self at every turn, with every familiar face, in every old recollection. . . She will see how much she has gained in some respects, how much she has lost - irretrievably lost - in others.

Lapses, Meet, Revisit, Self, Want

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

Dream, Nice, Sleep, Whispered

Look, do you see that poem?' she said suddenly, pointing.

Look, Looks, Pointing, Said

What a spineless thing I must be not to have one enemy!

Enemy, Spineless, Thing

Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.

Anne, Grow, Grows, Made, Said, Words

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

Beautiful, Happiness, Happy, Inspirational, Lonely, Night

It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.

Cruelty, Kind, Thoughtless, Worst

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