Lucy Maud
Lucy Maud
lying gossip nine
Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.
giving generosity easy
It's as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either ...
people looks aging
I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.
life fate thinking
It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.
beautiful dream tired
I'm just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking.
people use lm-montgomery
There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.
thinking people hitting
…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.
trouble
Everything that's worth having is some trouble…
long-ago might fancy
But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.
girl boys hands
Well now, I'd rather have you than a dozen boys, Anne,' said Matthew patting her hand. 'Just mind you that — rather than a dozen boys. Well now, I guess it wasn't a boy that took the Avery scholarship, was it? It was a girl — my girl — my girl that I'm proud of.
dream sunset eye
But Anne with her elbows on the window sill, her soft cheek laid against her clasped hands, and her eyes filled with visions, looked out unheedingly across city roof and spire to that glorious dome of sunset sky and wove her dreams of a possible future from the golden tissue of youth's own optimism. All the Beyond was hers, with its possibilities lurking rosily in the oncoming years — each year a rose of promise to be woven into an immortal chaplet.
children people trouble
I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.
cheer want miserable
I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!
grief luxury determined
…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.