I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.
("Anne of Avonlea")
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I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun rise and set in the usual quiet way without much fuss over the fact. If I had to have villains at all, I'd give them a chance, Anne--I'd give them a chance. There are some terrible bad men the world, I suppose, but you'd have to go a long piece to find them...But most of us have got a little decency somewhere in us. Keep on writing, Anne.L.M. Montgomery
I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
L.M. Montgomery
Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn't mean to be wicked. It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?
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We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word; and I hope it will always be so. But things can't be quite the same after this. You'll have other interests. I'll just be on the outside.
L.M. Montgomery
But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?
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How sympathetic you look, Anne…as sympathetic as only seventeen can look.
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