1. "If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying."
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L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
2. "Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading."
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L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
3. "It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free."
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L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
4. "Rebellion flamed up in her soul as the dark hours passed by – not because she had no future but because she had no past."
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L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
5. "Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain."
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L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
6. "Love you! Girl, you're in the very core of my heart. I hold you there like a jewel. Didn't I promise you I'd never tell you a lie? Love you! I love you with all there is of me to love. Heart, soul, brain. Every fibre of body and spirit thrilling to the sweetness of you. There's nobody in the world for me but you, Valancy."
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L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
7. "There is no such thing as freedom on earth," he said. "Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage."
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L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
8. "We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?"
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L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
9. "That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison."
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L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
10. "Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?"
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L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle