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She gives me meals that stick to my ribs. She don't forget to put salt in the porridge. She never slams doors, and when she has nothing to say, she don't talk. That's uncanny in a woman, you know, Mister.
— L.M. Montgomery The Blue Castle
Tags: women-s-roles, relationships, funny

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Despair is a free man—hope is a slave.
— L.M. Montgomery The Blue Castle
Tags: hope, despair
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
Tags: romance, love
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 Anne of Green Gables
Tags: inspirational
My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
— L.M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables
Tags: hope, despair
I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…
— L.M. Montgomery Anne of Windy Poplars
Tags: l-m-montgomery, books
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