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81 " We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find out interest in life returning to us. "
― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
82 " I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't. "
― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)
83 " Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband. "
― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables #2)
84 " A woman cannot ever be sure of not being married till she is buried, Mrs. Doctor, dear, and meanwhile I will make a batch of cherry pies. "
― L.M. Montgomery , Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
85 " Don't be fretting...about me marrying. Marrying's a trouble and not marrying's a trouble and I sticks to the trouble I knows. "
― L.M. Montgomery , Pat of Silver Bush (Pat of Silver Bush, #1)
86 " I'm afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life. "
87 " You've all been so sure that life is good that I've never been able to disbelieve it. Never will be able to. "
88 " Mrs. Binnie says we throw out more with a spoon than the men can be bringing in with a shovel...Binnie-like. Our men like the good living. And what if we don't be having too much money, Patsy dear? Sure and we do have lashings of things no money could be buying. There'll be enough squeezed out for Cuddles when the time comes. The Good Man Above will be seeing to that. "
― L.M. Montgomery
89 " A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter. "
90 " 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? "
― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, #4)
91 " I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape.'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you. "
92 " Lovely thoughts came flying to meet me like birds. They weren't my thoughts. I couldn't think anything half so exquisite. They came from somewhere. "
― L.M. Montgomery , Emily Climbs (Emily, #2)
93 " When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame. "
― L.M. Montgomery , Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1)
94 " Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne. "
95 " But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you? "
96 " Don't be ridiculous, please.'The most insulting words in the world! "
97 " I can always get through to-day very nicely. It's to-morrow I can't live through "
― L.M. Montgomery , Emily's Quest (Emily, #3)
98 " Don't let a three-o'clock-at-night feeling fog your soul. "
99 " God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly. "
100 " But the summer had been a very happy one, too -- a time of glad living with summer suns and skies, a time of keen delight in wholesome things; a time of renewing and deepening of old friendships; a time in which she had learned to live more nobly, to work more patiently, to play more heartily. "