"And yet... you wouldn't want it to stop hurting... you wouldn't want to forget your little mother even if you could."

Mourning, Grief, Memory, Love, Pain

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"And yet... you wouldn't want it to stop hurting... you wouldn't want to forget your little mother even if you could."

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"I 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 - 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 - it seems as if you were a sort of anchor for my drifting soul."

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"We mustn't let next week rob us of this week's joy."

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"Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own."

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"But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?"

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"Anne laughed."I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you."

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"It's lovely to be going home and know it's home. I love green gables already, and I've never loved any place before. Oh, Marilla, I'm so happy."

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"She came out of her reverie with a deep sigh and looked at him with a dreamy gaze of a soul that had been wandering afar, star-led."

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