the natures which enjoy most keenly...

"the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply..."
-L.M. Montgomery
Anne of the Island

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Two Terrible Years

"They have been two terrible years—and yet I have a queer feeling of thankfulness for them—as if they had brought me something very precious, with all their pain. I wouldn't want to go back and be the girl I was two years ago, not even if I could."
-L.M. Montgomery
Rilla of Ingleside

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I love a storm...

"I love a storm like this at night when I don't have to go out in it..."
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Emily Climbs

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In a Garden

"Nobody ever wants to know the time in a garden."
-L.M. Montgomery
The Story Girl

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a double ribbon of dancing buttercups...

"The road to Lowbridge was a double ribbon of dancing buttercups, with here and there the ferny green rim of an inviting grove."
-L.M. Montgomery
Anne of Ingleside

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The sea has one only...

 

"The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only—a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels."
-L.M. Montgomery
Anne's House of Dreams

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A real poet...

"You can never be a real poet if you haven't made at least one poem about spring."
-L.M. Montgomery
Emily of New Moon

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I hate this war...

"'I hate this war,' said Rilla bitterly, as she gazed out into the maple grove that was a chill glory of pink and gold in the winter sunset."
-L.M. Montgomery
Rilla of Ingleside

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For the first time in her life...

"For the first time in her life Pat found out what it was like to say good-bye to some one who was not coming back."
-L.M. Montgomery
Pat of Silver Bush

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She wanted to stay there forever...

"She wanted to stay there forever, alone with the happy thoughts that came to her among its flowers and grasses."
-L.M. Montgomery
A Tangled Web

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Joy and regret...

"Joy and regret struggled together in her heart."
-L.M. Montgomery
Anne of Avonlea

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And she was richer in those dreams...

"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
Anne of the Island

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