It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up,' laughed Anne.
'That's a true word, dearie. Some are grown up when they're born, and others ain't grown up when they're eighty, believe me. That same Mrs. Roderick I was speaking of never grew up. She was as foolish when she was hundred as when she was ten.'
'Perhaps that was why she lived so long,' suggested Anne.

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But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.

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Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful…

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Life may be a vale of tears, all right, but there are some folks who enjoy weeping, I reckon.

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Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.

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She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.

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…it's so dreadful to have nothing to love — life is so empty — and there's nothing worse than emptiness…

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…the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all modes and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquillity unbroken by fickle dreams.

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After Davy had gone to bed Anne wandered down to Victoria Island and sat there alone, curtained with fine-spun, moonlit gloom, while the water laughed around her in a duet of brook and wind.

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It'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…

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