We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryFancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryI shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryIt's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryShe had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.
Lucy Maud Montgomery