That's the worstโฆor the bestโฆof real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortableโฆand succeedingโฆeven when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryI 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.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryAt seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryI feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn't be I โ as if I must have changed into somebody else and couldn't get used to it. It gives me a horrible lonely, dazed, helpless feeling. It's good to see you again โ it seems as if you were a sort of anchor for my drifting soul.
Lucy Maud Montgomery