“It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.”

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Source: Rainbow Valley (1919), Ch. 13

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Canadian fiction writer 1874–1942

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