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And then - thwack! - Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head and cracked it - slate not head - clear across. -- L.m. Montgomery
Doss dear," said Cousin Georgiana mournfully, "some day you will discover that blood is thicker than water."
"Of course it is. But who wants water to be thick?" parried Valancy. -- L.m. Montgomery
The woods are never solitary
they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity. -- L.m. Montgomery
But there is a destiny which shapes the ends of young misses who are born with the itch for writing tingling in their baby fingertips, and in the fullness of time this destiny gave to Emily the desire of her heart - gave -- L.m. Montgomery
Don't you feel as if you just loved the world on a morning like this? -- L.m. Montgomery
She'd been real melancholy in the fall - religious melancholy - it ran in her family. Her father worried so much over believing that he had committed the unpardonable sin that he died in the asylum. -- L.m. Montgomery
I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen in halls of fancy. -- L.m. Montgomery
I thought Marilla Cuthburt was an old fool when I heard she'd adopted a girl out of an orphan asylum," she said to herself, "but I guess she didn't make much of a mistake after all. If I'd a child like Anne in the house all the time I'd be a better and happier woman. -- L.m. Montgomery
He believed he was dead and used to rage at his wife because she wouldn't bury him. I'd a-done it. -- L.m. Montgomery
Life is only beginning for you now ... since at last you're quite free and independent. And you never know what may be around the next bend in the road -- L.m. Montgomery
Knitting is something you can do, even when your heart is going like a trip-hammer and the pit of your stomach feels all gone and your thoughts are catawampus. Then when I see the headlines, be they good or be they bad, I calm down and am able to go about my business again. -- L.m. Montgomery
I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them. - Miss Barry -- L.m. Montgomery
You'll stay right here with me, Anne-girl," said Gilbert lazily. "I won't have you flying away from me into the hearts of storms. -- L.m. Montgomery
You've been four of the dearest, sweetest, goodest girls who ever went together through college,' averred Aunt Jamesina, who never spoiled a compliment by misplaced economy. -- L.m. Montgomery
I wish I was dead, or that it were tomorrow night," groaned Phil.
"If you live long enough both wishes will come true," said Anne calmly. -- L.m. Montgomery
Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years. -- L.m. Montgomery
I'm glad and I'm sorry. I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still more pleasant may come after, but you can never be sure. And it's so often the case that it isn't more pleasant. -- L.m. Montgomery
I believe you!" Miss Ellen nodded. "Mark my words, Mr. Meredith, that man is going to fight somebody yet. He's ACHING to. He is going to set the world on fire." "If -- L.m. Montgomery
I wonder," said Miss Oliver, "if humanity will be any happier because of aeroplanes. It seems to me that the sum of human happiness remains much the same from age to age, no matter how it may vary in distribution, and that all the 'many inventions' neither lessen nor increase it." "After -- L.m. Montgomery
He certainly must have money, for he has just showered Jane with jewelry. Her engagement ring is a diamond cluster so big that it looks like a plaster on Jane's fat paw. -- L.m. Montgomery
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing. -- L.m. Montgomery
Ruby Gillis says when she grows up she's going to have ever so many beaus on the string and have them all crazy about her; but I think that would be too exciting. I'd rather just have one in his right mind. -- L.m. Montgomery
We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word; and I hope it will always be so. But things can't be quite the same after this. You'll have other interests. I'll just be on the outside. -- L.m. Montgomery
Everybody has. It wouldn't do for us to have all our dreams fulfilled. We would be as good as dead if we had nothing left to dream about. -- L.m. Montgomery
It wouldn't do to have all our dreams fulfilled. We would be as good as dead if we had nothing left to dream about. - Anne Shirley -- L.m. Montgomery
I never hear about dear Mike. I wrote Ellen Greene and asked about him and she replyed and never mentioned Mike but told me all about her roomatism. As if I cared about her roomatism. -- L.m. Montgomery
When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does. -- L.m. Montgomery
There isn't any devil in a good dog. That's why they're more lovable than cats, I reckon. But I'm darned if they're as interesting. -- L.m. Montgomery
All life lessons are not learned at college,' she thought. 'Life teaches them everywhere. -- L.m. Montgomery
I've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts. -- L.m. Montgomery
But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods ... for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them. -- L.m. Montgomery
Diana has only one birthday in a year. It isn't as if birthdays were common things, Marilla. -- L.m. Montgomery
I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June. -- L.m. Montgomery
And he wrote, When the moon rises tonight think of me and I'll think of you. -- L.m. Montgomery
As they dashed into the kitchen the light seemed to vanish, as if blown out by some mighty breath; the awful cloud rolled over the sun and a darkness as of late twilight fell across the world. -- L.m. Montgomery
I don't know whether it is any use forgiving people or not. Yes, it is, it makes you feel more comfortable yourself. -- L.m. Montgomery
I suppose all this sounds very crazy - all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken - only felt and endured. -- L.m. Montgomery
Tell me this
if you knew you would be poor as a church mouse all your life
if you knew you'd never have a line published
would you still go on writing
would you?'
'Of course I would,' said Emily disdainfully. 'Why, I have to write
I can't help it at times
I've just got to. -- L.m. Montgomery
It was because you looked so happy. Oh, you'll agree with me now that I AM a hateful beast - to hate another woman just because she was happy, - and when her happiness didn't take anything from me! That -- L.m. Montgomery
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. -- L.m. Montgomery
She said she'd have spoken years ago, only she thought I wouldn't. And I never spoke to her because I was sure she wouldn't speak to me. Isn't it strange how people misunderstand each other? -- L.m. Montgomery
Yes, red-to give warmth to that milk-white skin and those shining gray-green eyes of yours. Golden hair wouldn't suit you at all Queen Anne-My Queen Anne-queen of my heart and life and home. -- L.m. Montgomery
I never see a ship sailing out of the channel, or a gull soaring over the sand-bar, without wishing I were on board the ship or had wings, not like a dove 'to fly away and be at rest,' but like a gull, to sweep out into the very heart of the storm. -- L.m. Montgomery
Pat wanted to comfort him for something she did not understand. She slipped her little hand into his ... he had a warm pleasant hand. They walked home together so. -- L.m. Montgomery
Thank God, I can keep the shadows of my life out of my work. I would not wish to darken any other life - I want instead to be a messenger of optimism and sunshine. -- L.m. Montgomery
Diana and I are thinking seriously of promising each other that we will never marry but be nice old maids and live together forever. Diana hasn't quite made up her mind though, because she thinks perhaps it would be nobler to marry some wild, dashing, wicked young man and reform him. -- L.m. Montgomery
There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely. -- L.m. Montgomery
No. I don't think I've ever been really lonely in my life," answered Anne. "Even when I'm alone I have real good company - dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I LIKE to be alone now and then, just to think over things and TASTE them. -- L.m. Montgomery
It with an E. We had recitations this afternoon. I just wish you could have been there to hear me recite 'Mary, Queen of Scots.' I just put my whole soul into it. Ruby Gillis told me coming home that the way I said the line, 'Now for my -- L.m. Montgomery
There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible. -- L.m. Montgomery
The golden west between its softly dark shores. The sea moaned eerily on the sand-bar, sorrowful even in spring, but a sly, jovial wind -- L.m. Montgomery
Isn't it terrible the way some unworthy folks are loved, while others that deserve it far more, you'd think, never get much affection? -- L.m. Montgomery
There be three gentle and goodlie things,
To be here,
To be together,
And to think well of one another. -- L.m. Montgomery
How terrible it must be not to see and feel beauty ... I'm so glad I can find happiness in all lovely little things ... It seems to me that every time I look out of a window the world gives me a gift. -- L.m. Montgomery
Rilla was not fond of Mary Vance. She had never forgotten the humiliating day when Mary had chased her through the village with a dried codfish. -- L.m. Montgomery
In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well -- L.m. Montgomery
Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came. -- L.m. Montgomery
That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with ... making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself. -- L.m. Montgomery
The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat. -- L.m. Montgomery
I read the story of Red Riding Hood today. I think the wolf was the most interesting character in it. Red Riding Hood was a stupid little thing so easily fooled. -- L.m. Montgomery
Miss Cordelia thought she had never seen anybody so much like an incarnate smile before. Smiles of all kinds seemed literally to riot over his ruddy face and in and out of his eyes and around the corners of his mouth. -- L.m. Montgomery
Mrs Allan says that whenever we think of anything that is a trial to use we should also think of something nice that we can set over against it. If you are slightly too plump, you've got the dearest dimples; and if I have a freckled nose the shape of it is all right. -- L.m. Montgomery
Anne was curled up Turk-fashion on the hearthrug, gazing into that joyous glow where the sunshine of a hundred summers was being distilled from the maple cordwood. -- L.m. Montgomery
Thanksgiving should be celebrated in the spring ... I think it would be ever so much better than having it in November when everything is dead or asleep. Then you have to remember to be thankful; but in May one simply can't help being thankful ... that they are alive, if for nothing else. -- L.m. Montgomery
I went looking for my dreams outside of myself and discovered, it's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it. -- L.m. Montgomery
But the summer had been a very happy one, too
a time of glad living with summer suns and skies, a time of keen delight in wholesome things; a time of renewing and deepening of old friendships; a time in which she had learned to live more nobly, to work more patiently, to play more heartily. -- L.m. Montgomery
We lost our son, Anne, as did many others, but we have our memories of him and souls cannot die. We can still walk with Walter in the spring. -- L.m. Montgomery
After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string. -- L.m. Montgomery
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. -- L.m. Montgomery
I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is. -- L.m. Montgomery
I'm so glad my window looks east into the sun rising," said Anne, going over to Diana. "It's so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long hills and glowing through those sharp fir tops. It's new every morning, and I feel as if I washed my very soul in that bath of earliest sunshine. Oh, -- L.m. Montgomery
Well now, I'd rather have you than a dozen boys, Anne,' said Matthew patting her hand. 'Just mind you that - rather than a dozen boys. Well now, I guess it wasn't a boy that took the Avery scholarship, was it? It was a girl - my girl - my girl that I'm proud of. -- L.m. Montgomery
When common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul. -- L.m. Montgomery
If you buy your experience it's your own. So it's no matter how much you pay for it. -- L.m. Montgomery
Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful ... -- L.m. Montgomery
To be obliged to sit still when mental agony urges us to stride up and down is the refinement of torture. Every -- L.m. Montgomery
The Piper is coming nearer," he said, "he is nearer than he was that evening I saw him before. His long, shadowy cloak is blowing around him. He pipes - he pipes - and we must follow - Jem and Carl and Jerry and I - round and round the world. Listen - listen - can't you hear his wild music? -- L.m. Montgomery
He had learned the rare secret that you must take happiness when you find it - that there is no use in marking the place and coming back to it at a more convenient season, because it will not be there then. -- L.m. Montgomery
Steal not this book for fear of shame
For on it is the owners name
And when you die the Lord will say
Where is the book you stole away
And when you say you do not know
The Lord will say go down below. -- L.m. Montgomery
I 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. -- L.m. Montgomery
Well, James Matthew is a name that will wear well and not fade in the washing," said Miss Cornelia. "I'm glad you didn't load him down with some highfalutin, romantic name that he'd be ashamed of when he gets to be a grandfather ... -- L.m. Montgomery
I wish I could like the baby a little bit. It would make things easier. But I don't. I've heard people say that when you took care of a baby you got fond of it - but you don't - I don't, anyway. -- L.m. Montgomery
Cousin Jimmy says that a man in Priest Pond says the end of the world is coming soon. I hope it won't come till I've seen everything in it. -- L.m. Montgomery
Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it. -- L.m. Montgomery
The other day Nan said, 'Nothing can ever be quite the same for any of us again.' It made me feel rebellious. Why shouldn't things be the same again - when everything is over and Jem and Jerry are back? We'll all be happy and jolly again and these days will seem just like a bad dream. -- L.m. Montgomery
You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you. -- L.m. Montgomery
The year is a book, isn't it, Marilla? Spring's pages are written in Mayflowers and violets, summer's in roses, autumn's in red maple leaves, and winter in holly and evergreen. -- L.m. Montgomery
I don't say Valancy deliberately murdered these lovers as she outgrew them. One simply faded away as another came. Things are very convenient in this respect in Blue Castles. -- L.m. Montgomery
Even when I'm alone I have real good company - dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships - and nice, jolly little times with people. -- L.m. Montgomery
That's one of the things we learn as we grow older
how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty. -- L.m. Montgomery
Only a few more weeks till spring ... and a few more weeks then till summer ... and holidays ... and Green Gables ... and golden sunlight on Avonlea meadows ... and a gulf that will be silver at dawn and sapphire at noon and crimson at sunset ... and you. -- L.m. Montgomery
Aunt Ruth looked at the unlucky pair.
"What are you doing here?" she asked Perry.
Stovepipe Town made a mistake.
"Oh, looking for a round square," said Perry off-handedly, his eyes suddenly becoming limpid with mischief and lawless roguery. -- L.m. Montgomery
The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring. -- L.m. Montgomery
I won't say another word
not one. I know I talk too much, but I am really trying to overcome it, and although I say far too much, yet if you only knew how much I want to say and don't, you'd give me some credit for it. -- L.m. Montgomery
I know I chatter on far too much ... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit. -- L.m. Montgomery
Folks say I've never been quite right since - but they only say that because I'm a poet, and because nothing ever worries me. Poets are so rare in Blair Water folks don't understand them, and most people worry so much, they think you're not right if you don't worry. -- L.m. Montgomery
Oh, this is the most TRAGICAL thing that ever happened to me! -- L.m. Montgomery
I'm going to have the daintiest things possible ... things that will match the spring, you understand ... little jelly tarts and lady fingers, and drop cookies frosted with pink and yellow icing, and buttercup cake. -- L.m. Montgomery
I think it is because I have a habit, when I am bored or disgusted with people of stepping suddenly into my own world and shutting the door. People resent this
I suppose it is only natural to resent a door being shut in your face. They call it slyness when it is only self-defense. -- L.m. Montgomery
Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne. -- L.m. Montgomery
A woman cannot ever be sure of not being married till she is buried, Mrs. Doctor, dear, and meanwhile I will make a batch of cherry pies. -- L.m. Montgomery
She had always envied the wind. So free. Blowing where it listed. Through the hills. Over the lakes. What a tang, what a zip it had! What a magic of adventure! -- L.m. Montgomery
There are moments when we have real fun because, just for the moment, we don't think about things and then
we remember
and the remembering is worse than thinking of it all the time would have been. -- L.m. Montgomery
Pointed firs coming out against the pink sky- and that white orchard and the old Snow Queen. Isn't the breath of the mint delicious? And that tea rose- why, it's a song and a hope and a prayer all in one. -- L.m. Montgomery
Yes; but if dryads are foolish they must take the consequences, just as if they were real people," said Paul gravely. "Do you know what I think about the new moon, teacher? I think it is a little golden boat full of dreams. -- L.m. Montgomery
A proper Irishman always does what a lady asks him. Sure an' it's been the ruin av us. We're at the mercy av the petticoats. -- L.m. Montgomery
Isn't it queer that the things we writhe over at night are seldom wicked things? Just humiliating ones. -- L.m. Montgomery
I think the nicest thing about days is their unexpectedness. It's jolly to wake up like this on a golden-fine morning and day-dream for ten minutes before I get up, imagining heaps of splendid things that might happen. -- L.m. Montgomery
Next to a mother she wanted a quiet place where she could be alone when she wanted to be; to listen to the wind telling her strange tales, or hold the big spotted shell that murmured of the sea to her ear, or talk to the roses in the garden. -- L.m. Montgomery
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. -- L.m. Montgomery
You do love me, Gilbert? You haven't said you loved me in so long."
"My dear, I didn't think you needed words to know that. I can't live without you. -- L.m. Montgomery
What I want to get out of my college course is some knowledge of the best way of living life and doing the most and best with it. I want to learn to understand and help other people and myself. -- L.m. Montgomery
After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt? -- L.m. Montgomery
Every day is a new day without any mistakes in it yet. -- L.m. Montgomery
Perhaps it was nothing very dreadful after all. I think the little things in life often make more trouble than the big things,' said Anne with one of those flashes of insight which experience could not have bettered. -- L.m. Montgomery
Why, for mercy's sake, did boys try to dance who didn't know the first thing about dancing; and who had feet as big as boats? -- L.m. Montgomery
It had been so ugly, and Walter hated ugliness. -- L.m. Montgomery
If a kiss could be seen it would look like a violet. -- L.m. Montgomery
I didn't think about
its being wrong to go in and try on the brooch; but I see now
that it was and I'll never do it again. That's one good thing
about me. I never do the same naughty thing twice -- L.m. Montgomery
But that would be terrible queer, Anne. And what would Mrs Harmon Andrews say?"
"Ah, there's the rub," sighed Anne. "There are so many things in life we cannot do because of the fear of what Mrs Harmon Andrews would say. What delightful things we might do were it not for Mrs Harmon Andrews! -- L.m. Montgomery
I find it is not always easy to be sure whether your deeds are good or bad. -- L.m. Montgomery
Him life just as much as you did, Mrs. Dr. dear," Susan was wont to say. "He is just as much my baby as he is yours." And, indeed, it was always to Susan that Shirley ran, to -- L.m. Montgomery
I'm sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood. -- L.m. Montgomery
I am well in body although considerably rumpled up in spirit, thank you, ma'am,' said Anne gravely. Then aside to Marilla in an audible whisper, 'There wasn't anything startling in that, was there, Marilla? -- L.m. Montgomery
But what is the use of being an independent old maid if you can't be silly when you want to, and when it doesn't hurt anybody? A person must have some compensations. -- L.m. Montgomery
That's the worst of growing up,
and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so
much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful
to you when you get them. -- L.m. Montgomery
housewives of the Glen felt it, and -- L.m. Montgomery
Don't let a three-o'clock-at-night feeling fog your soul. -- L.m. Montgomery
It is a start, and I mean to keep on, I find written in my old journal of that year. -- L.m. Montgomery
... there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets. -- L.m. Montgomery
She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare. -- L.m. Montgomery
Splendid to think of all the things there are to find out -- L.m. Montgomery
I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you. -- L.m. Montgomery
He never had any sense of decorum ... always kissing his wife in the most unsuitable places!' "(Are you sure you kiss me in suitable places, Gilbert? I'm afraid Mrs. Gibson would think the nape of the neck, for instance, most unsuitable.) "'But, -- L.m. Montgomery
Nothing seems worthwhile. My very thoughts are old. I've thought them all before. What is the use of living after all, Anne? -- L.m. Montgomery
He was one of your wicked, fascinating men. After he got married he left off being fascinating and just kept on being wicked. -- L.m. Montgomery
I love my garden, and I love working in it. To potter with green growing things, watching each day to see the dear, new sprouts come up, is like taking a hand in creation, I think. Just now my garden is like faith - the substance of things hoped for. -- L.m. Montgomery
Fought in the world; but that was as yet far in the future; and the mother, whose first-born son he was, was wont to look on her boys and thank God that the "brave days of old," which Jem longed for, were gone for ever, and that never would it be necessary for the -- L.m. Montgomery
There'll be love there, Phil-faithful tender love, such as I'll never find anywhere else in the world-love that's waiting for me. That makes my picture a masterpiece, doesn't it, even if the colours are nit very brilliant? -- L.m. Montgomery
Shirking responsibilities is the curse of our modern life-the secret of all the unrest and discontent that is seething in the world - Gilbert Blythe -- L.m. Montgomery
Dear God, help him and help the mother . . . help all mothers everywhere. We need so much help, with the little sensitive, loving hearts and minds that look to us for guidance and love and understanding. -- L.m. Montgomery
Marilla loved the [more grown up] girl as much as she had loved the child, but she was conscious of a queer sorrowful sense of loss. -- L.m. Montgomery
Ye've only got to live one day at a time, darlint. One can always be living just one more day. -- L.m. Montgomery
Oh, I wish we had the old days back again," exclaimed Jem. "I'd love to be a soldier - a great, triumphant general. I'd give EVERYTHING to see a big battle." Well, -- L.m. Montgomery
Diana: "Gilbert told Charlie Sloan that you were the smartest girl in school, right in front of Josie."
Anne: "He did?"
Diana: "He told Charlie being smart was better than being good looking."
Anne: "I should have known he meant to insult me. -- L.m. Montgomery
She told herself that she longed greatly to go back to those dear merry days when life was seen through a rosy mist of hope and illusion, and possessed an indefinable something that had passed away forever. Where was it now
the glory and the dream? -- L.m. Montgomery
You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams. -- L.m. Montgomery
Today, so long, so strange, so bitter; will soon be some forgotten yesterday. -- L.m. Montgomery
Listen to the bells ringing in Rainbow Valley! I never heard them so clearly. They're ringing for peace--and new happiness--and all the dear, sweet, sane, homey things that we can have again now, Miss Oliver. -- L.m. Montgomery
It was November
the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland alleys in the park and, as she said, let that great sweeping wind blow the fogs out of her soul. -- L.m. Montgomery
A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven. -- L.m. Montgomery
The kind of juvenile story I like best to write
and read, too, for the matter of that
is a good, jolly one, "art for art's sake," or rather "fun for fun's sake," with no insidious moral hidden away in it like a pill in a spoonful of jam! -- L.m. Montgomery
Her beauty is the least of her dower-and she is the most beautiful woman I've ever known. That laugh of hers! I've angled all summer to evoke that laugh, just for the delight of hearing it. -- L.m. Montgomery
I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart. -- L.m. Montgomery
Every girl, whose ideals are high and pure, wields over her friends; an influence which would endure as long as she was faithful to those ideals and which she would as certainly lose if she were ever false to them. -- L.m. Montgomery
You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair.
- Anne Shirley -- L.m. Montgomery
Nothing good about this but it's title. A priggish little yarn. And Hidden Riches is not a story
it's a machine. It creaks. It never made me forget for one instant that it was a story. Hence it isn't a story. -- L.m. Montgomery
Girls, sometimes I feel as if those exams mean everything, but when I look at the big buds swelling on those chestnut trees and the misty blue air at the end of the streets they don't seem half so important. -- L.m. Montgomery
Don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid -- L.m. Montgomery
Well, anyway, when I am grown up," said Anne decidedly, "I'm always going to talk to little girls as if they were too, and I'll never laugh when they use big words. I know from sorrowful experience how that hurts one's feelings. -- L.m. Montgomery
... and he wasn't reconciled to dying. Dora told him he was going to a better world. "Mebbe, mebbe," says poor Ben, "but I'm sorter used to the imperfections of this one. -- L.m. Montgomery
... 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. -- L.m. Montgomery
You've all been so sure that life is good that I've never been able to disbelieve it. Never will be able to. -- L.m. Montgomery
In life, as in dreams, however, things often go by contraries -- L.m. Montgomery
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. -- L.m. Montgomery
I know they'll take their knitting with them everywhere. They simply couldn't be parted from it. They will walk about Westminster Abbey and knit, I feel sure. -- L.m. Montgomery
I am afraid to speak or move for the fear all this wonderful beauty will vanish just like a broken silence -- L.m. Montgomery
Cousin Jimmy thinks I did perfectly right. Cousin Jimmy would think I had done perfectly right if I had murdered Andrew and buried him in the Land of Uprightness. It's very nice to have one friend like that, though too many wouldn't be good for you. -- L.m. Montgomery
And anyhow I'd always be too tired at night to bother saying prayers. People who have to look after twins can't be expected to say their prayers. Now, -- L.m. Montgomery
Just to love! She did not ask to be loved. It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods. -- L.m. Montgomery
Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin. -- L.m. Montgomery
Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Do you expect to attend many balls, if I may ask?' and I said, 'Yes, when I am rich and famous.' and Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Yes, when the moon is made of green cheese. -- L.m. Montgomery
She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms. -- L.m. Montgomery
Mrs. Cadbury: Tell me what you know about yourself.
Anne Shirley: Well, it really isn't worth telling, Mrs. Cadbury ... but if you let me tell you what I IMAGINE about myself you'd find it a lot more interesting. -- L.m. Montgomery
Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces -- L.m. Montgomery
I never fancied cats much till I found the First Mate," he remarked, to the accompaniment of the Mate's tremendous purrs. "I saved his life, and when you've saved a creature's life you're bound to love it. It's next thing to giving life. -- L.m. Montgomery
Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it? -- L.m. Montgomery
Andrew is going to be one of my problems. Dean thinks it's great fun
he knows what is in the wind as well as I do. He is always teasing me about my red-headed young man
my r.h.y.m. for short.
"He's almost a rhyme," said Dean.
"But never a poem," said I. -- L.m. Montgomery
For there is no bond more lasting than that formed by
the mutual confidences of that magic time when youth is slipping from
the sheath of childhood and beginning to wonder what lies for it beyond
those misty hills that bound the golden road. -- L.m. Montgomery
Make them do as you want them to," she said.
"I can't," mourned Anne. "Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again. -- L.m. Montgomery
If it's IN you to climb you must
there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills
they can't breathe properly in the valleys. -- L.m. Montgomery
What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of criticism. The one essential thing I demand of a book is that it should interest me. If it does, I forgive it every other fault. -- L.m. Montgomery
Well, all I hope," said Miss Cornelia calmly, "is that when I'm dead nobody will call me 'our departed sister. -- L.m. Montgomery
The trouble with you, Anne, is that you're thinking too much about yourself. You should just think of Mrs. Allan and what would be nicest and most agreeable to her, said Marilla, hitting for once in her life on a very sound and pithy piece of advice. Anne instantly realized this. -- L.m. Montgomery
I love a book that makes me cry. -- L.m. Montgomery
Few things in Avonlea ever escaped Mrs. Lynde. It was only that morning Anne had said, If you went to your own room at midnight, locked the door, pulled down the blind, and sneezed, Mrs. Lynde would ask you the next day how your cold was! -- L.m. Montgomery
There is a man in Bolingbroke who lisps and always testifies in prayer-meeting. He says, 'If you can't thine like an electric thtar thine like a candlethtick. -- L.m. Montgomery
It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it? -- L.m. Montgomery
People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is. -- L.m. Montgomery
Isn't that a view worth looking at? Nice and far from the marketplace, ain't it? No buying and selling and getting gain. You don't have to pay anything- all that sea and sky free- 'without money and without price. -- L.m. Montgomery
The minister who is candidating can't be too careful what text he chooses, -- L.m. Montgomery
Better a dinner of herbs where your chums are than a stalled ox in a lonely boardinghouse. -- L.m. Montgomery
Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. -- L.m. Montgomery
... I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much. -- L.m. Montgomery
What if you never meet him?
Then I shall die an old maid, was the cheerful response. I daresay it isn't the hardest death by any means.
Oh, I suppose the dying would be easy enough, it's the living an old maid I shouldn't like, said Diana, with no intention of being humorous. -- L.m. Montgomery
Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it? Diana and I are thinking seriously of promising each other that we will never marry but be nice old maids and live together forever -- L.m. Montgomery
I'm just tired of everything ... even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes ... echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking. -- L.m. Montgomery
There are times, Anne dearie, when I know by your eyes that YOUR soberness is put on like a garment and you're really aching to do something wild and young again. -- L.m. Montgomery
Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad, just when you especially want them to be good! -- L.m. Montgomery
March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine. -- L.m. Montgomery
The tinkles of sleigh bells among the snowy hills came like elfin chimes through the frosty air, but their music was not sweeter than the song in Anne's heart and on her lips. -- L.m. Montgomery
I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea," said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. "And asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know. -- L.m. Montgomery
It was sad, tragic - and true! Heaven could not be what Ruby had been used to. There had been nothing in her gay, frivolous life, her shallow ideals and aspirations, to fit her for that great change, or make the life to come seem to her anything but alien and unreal and undesirable. -- L.m. Montgomery
What are you going to do with the money Anne? Let's all go up town and get drunk! -- L.m. Montgomery
I shall always be pointed at as the girl who flavored a cake with anodyne liniment. -- L.m. Montgomery
... always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches had hurt her in her own sorrow and was afraid. -- L.m. Montgomery
She turned to Roy with her gayest expression. He smiled back at her with what Phil called "his deep, black, velvety smile." Yet, she really did not see Roy at all. She was acutely conscious that Gilbert was standing under the palms just across the room talking to a girl who must be Christine Stuart -- L.m. Montgomery
A body can get used to anything, even to being hanged, as the Irishman said. -- L.m. Montgomery
I've put out a lot of little roots these two years," Anne told the moon, "and when I'm pulled up they're going to hurt a great deal. But it's best to go, I think, and, as Marilla says, there's no good reason why I shouldn't. I must get out all my ambitions and dust them. -- L.m. Montgomery
Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths. -- L.m. Montgomery
I love keeping house ... it's really a lovely phrase isn't it? Keeping it ... holding it fast against the world ... against all the forces trying to tear it open. -- L.m. Montgomery
The Haunted Wood was a harmless, pretty spruce grove in the field below the orchard. We considered that all our haunts were too commonplace, so we invented this for our own amusement. -- L.m. Montgomery
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. -- L.m. Montgomery
It was a gracious evening, full of delectable lights and shadows. In the west was a sky of mackerel clouds-crimson and amber-tinted, with long strips of apple-green sky between. Beyond was the glimmering radiance of a sunset sea, and the ceaseless voice of many waters came up from the tawny shore. -- L.m. Montgomery
I have a dream," he said slowly. "I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends
and you! -- L.m. Montgomery
I said I thought I liked Dean's idea of a succession of lives - I can't make out from him whether he really believes that or not - and Ilse said that might be all very well if you were sure of being born again as a decent person, but how about it if you weren't? -- L.m. Montgomery
You know what Lowell says, 'Not failure but low aim is crime.' We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With -- L.m. Montgomery
Nothing to hinder me. But that brief dream is over. I am resigned to my fate now, so I don't think I'll go out for fear I'll get unresigned again. -- L.m. Montgomery
Our library isn't very extensive," said Anne, "but every book in it is a friend. We've picked our books up through the years, here and there, never buying one until we had first read it and knew that it belonged to the race of Joseph. -- L.m. Montgomery
Captain Jim thought women were delightful creatures, who ought to have the vote, and everything else they wanted, bless their hearts; but he did not believe they could write. -- L.m. Montgomery
You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression. -- L.m. Montgomery
She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren. -- L.m. Montgomery
She makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble making myself love them -- L.m. Montgomery
Green Gables has been translated into Swedish and Dutch. My copy of the Swedish edition always gives me the inestimable boon of a laugh. The cover design is a full length figure of Anne, wearing a sunbonnet, carrying the famous carpet-bag, and with hair that is literally of an intense scarlet! -- L.m. Montgomery
She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone. -- L.m. Montgomery
Josie is a Pye," said Marilla sharply, "so she can't help being disagreeable. I suppose people of that kind serve some useful purpose in society, but I must say I don't know what it is any more than I know the use of thistles. -- L.m. Montgomery
A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion. -- L.m. Montgomery
Afar in the southwest was the great shimmering, pearl-like sparkle of an evening star in a sky that was pale golden and ethereal rose over gleaming white spaces and dark glens of spruce -- L.m. Montgomery
It is not," Valency could hear her mother's prim, dictatorial voice asserting, "it is not MAIDENLY to think about MEN. -- L.m. Montgomery
[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want. -- L.m. Montgomery
help me most. I know you'll be as plucky and patient as you have shown yourself to be this past year - I'm not afraid for you. I know that no matter what happens, you'll be Rilla-my-Rilla - no matter what happens." Rilla repressed -- L.m. Montgomery
She felt vaguely upset and unsettled. She was suddenly tired of outworn dreams. And in the garden the petals of the last red rose were scattered by a sudden little wind. Summer was over
it was Autumn. -- L.m. Montgomery
Why should one hate you when you were so small? Could you be worth hating? -- L.m. Montgomery
Leslie, after her first anguish was over, found it possible to go on with life after all, as most of us do, no matter what our particular form of torment has been. It is even possible that she enjoyed moments of it, when she was one of the gay circle in the little house of dreams. -- L.m. Montgomery
I don't want to talk as much,' she said, denting her chin thoughtfully with her forefinger. 'It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. -- L.m. Montgomery
Being frightened of things is worse than the things themselves. -- L.m. Montgomery
More than ever at that instant did she long for speech - speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray. -- L.m. Montgomery
We mustn't let next week rob us of this week's joy. -- L.m. Montgomery
And then the petty jealousy of these small prunes-and-prisms places - if you do anything the people you went to school with can't do some of them will never forgive you. -- L.m. Montgomery
She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly. -- L.m. Montgomery
and grim and faithful handmaiden of the Blythe family at Ingleside, never lost an opportunity of calling her "Mrs. Marshall Elliott," with -- L.m. Montgomery
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. -- L.m. Montgomery
Everything that's worth having is some trouble ... -- L.m. Montgomery
Now you see why I can't be perfectly happy. No one could, who has red hair. -- L.m. Montgomery
Light, the sweetness of sleepy robins whistling among the twilit maples, and the dance of a gusty group of daffodils blowing against the -- L.m. Montgomery
Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert her -- L.m. Montgomery
If I had my way I'd shut everything out of your life but happiness and pleasure, Anne, said Gilbert -- L.m. Montgomery
The sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear. -- L.m. Montgomery
Oh, daddy, by what witchcraft have you coaxed that sulky rose-bush into bloom?'
'No witchcraft at all - it just bloomed because you were coming home, baby,' said her father. -- L.m. Montgomery
Life is rich and full here ... everywhere ... if we can only learn how to open our whole hearts to its richness and fullness. -- L.m. Montgomery
That boy ought to sleep with a rubber band around his head to train his ears not to stick out. I had a beau once who did that and it improved him immensely. -- L.m. Montgomery
Do you never imagine things different from what they really are?" asked Anne wide-eyed.
"No."
"Oh!" Anne drew a long breath. "Oh, Miss--Marilla, how much you miss! -- L.m. Montgomery
Little Jem had said "Wow-ga" that morning. What were principalities and powers, the rise and fall of dynasties, the overthrow of Grit or Tory, compared with that miraculous occurrence? -- L.m. Montgomery
At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on. -- L.m. Montgomery
I believe in a girl being fitted to earn her own living whether she ever has to or not. You'll -- L.m. Montgomery
There is nothing but meetings and partings in this world - Anne Shirley -- L.m. Montgomery
I think a great deal of those dogs," she said proudly. "They are over a hundred years old, and they have sat on either side of this fireplace ever since my brother Aaron brought them from London fifty years ago. Spofford Avenue was called after my brother Aaron." "A -- L.m. Montgomery
I had always disliked men. It must have been born in me, because, as far back as I can remember, an antipathy to men and dogs was one of my strongest characteristics. I was noted for that. My experiences through life only served to deepen it. The more I saw of men, the more I liked cats. -- L.m. Montgomery
He pipes - he pipes - and we must follow - Jem and Carl and Jerry and I - round and round the world. Listen - listen - can't you hear his wild music? The girls shivered. -- L.m. Montgomery
Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins! (Anne to Gilbert) -- L.m. Montgomery
It was a clear, apple-green -- L.m. Montgomery
It was a clear, apple-green evening in May, and Four Winds Harbour was mirroring back the clouds of the golden west between its softly dark shores. -- L.m. Montgomery
The eastern sky above the firs was flushed faintly pink from the reflection of the west, and Anne was wondering dreamily if the spirit of color looked like that ... -- L.m. Montgomery
Well, one can't get over the habit of being a liitle girl all at once. -- L.m. Montgomery
Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your own. -- L.m. Montgomery
Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story ... Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91) -- L.m. Montgomery
How terrible it would be to be doing something you didn't like every day -- L.m. Montgomery
There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a comforting thought -- L.m. Montgomery
Oh, don't you see? There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought. -- L.m. Montgomery
Emily, thus dashed to earth, moved back to her seat in a daze. Her smitten cheek was crimson, but the wound was in her heart. One moment ago in the seventh heaven--and now this--pain, humiliation, misunderstanding! -- L.m. Montgomery
It's snowing some today and Marilla says the old woman in the sky is shaking her feather beds. Is the old woman in the sky God's wife, Anne? I want to know. Mrs. -- L.m. Montgomery
They had a sort of talent for happiness. -- L.m. Montgomery
Jane says she will devote her whole life to teaching, and never, never marry, because you are paid a salary for teaching, but a husband won't pay you anything, and growls if you ask for a share in the egg and butter money. -- L.m. Montgomery
Sometimes I feel as if those exams meant everything, but when I look at the big buds swelling on those chestnut trees and the misty blue air ... They don't seem half so important -- L.m. Montgomery
Or she may find out what is at the end of the harbor road ... that wandering, twisting road like a nice red snake, that leads, so Elizabeth thinks, to the end of the world. Perhaps the Island of Happiness is there. -- L.m. Montgomery
It has been a prosy day for us," she said thoughtfully, "but to some people it has been a wonderful day. Some one has been rapturously happy in it. Perhaps a great deed has been done somewhere today-- or a great poem written-- or a great man born. -- L.m. Montgomery
It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen ... wonderful things. -- L.m. Montgomery
It has been a Prosy day for us, but for some people it has been a wonderful day. Someone was rapturously happy in it. Perhaps a great deed has been done somewhere today- a great poem written- or a great man born. And some heart has been broken, Phil. -- L.m. Montgomery
It must be lovely to be grown up, Marilla, when just being treated as if you were is so nice ... Well, anyway, when I grow up, I'm always going to talk to little girls as if they were, too, and I'll never laugh when they use big words. -- L.m. Montgomery
Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expected a kiss. -- L.m. Montgomery
I was very sorry that i had been in a temper --- but I was sorry because it was foolish and undignified, not because it was wicked. -- L.m. Montgomery
I know that in everybody's life must come days of depression and discouragement when all things in life seem to lose savour. The sunniest day has its clouds;but one must not forget the sun is there all the time. -- L.m. Montgomery
Miss Cornelia dropped in that afternoon, puffing a little.
"I don't mind the world or the devil much, but the flesh does rather bother me," she admitted. "You always look as cool as a cucumber, Anne, dearie. Do I smell cherry pie? If I do, ask me to stay to tea ... -- L.m. Montgomery
Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. -- L.m. Montgomery
Oh, I don't wonder babies always cry when they wake up in the night. So often I want to do it too. -- L.m. Montgomery
You never can tell what you can do till you try. -- L.m. Montgomery
I'm afraid you'll find out all too soon that life's a melancholy business. -- L.m. Montgomery
I wonder if it will be - can be - any more beautiful than this,' murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptured eyes of those to whom 'home' must always be the loveliest spot in the world, no matter what fairer lands may lie under alien stars. -- L.m. Montgomery
She understood that she must not write merely to win fame for herself or even for the higher motive of pure pleasure in her work. She must aim, however humbly, to help her readers to higher planes of thought and endeavor. Then and only then would it be worth while. -- L.m. Montgomery
How quiet the woods are today... not a murmur except that soft wind putting in the treetops! It sounds like surf on a faraway shore. How dear the woods are! You beautiful trees! I love every one of you as a friend! -- L.m. Montgomery
My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes. -- L.m. Montgomery
Well, that is another hope gone. My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes. That's a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it over to comfort myself whenever I'm disappointed in anything. -- L.m. Montgomery
Occasionally she would come to church, stalking unconcernedly up the aisle to a prominent seat. She never put on hat or shoes on such occasions, but when she wanted to be especially grand she powdered face, arms and legs with flour! -- L.m. Montgomery
Felicity, if I die from the effects of eating sawdust pudding, flavoured with needles, you'll be sorry you ever said such a thing to your poor old uncle, said Uncle Roger reproachfully. -- L.m. Montgomery
Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things? -- L.m. Montgomery
There the rose of joy bloomed immortal by dale and stream; clouds never darkened the sunny sky; sweet bells never jangled out of tune; and kindred spirits abounded. -- L.m. Montgomery
It is not every day one sees a soul-even of a poem -- L.m. Montgomery
I never was in love with him. I only imagined I was. You know that. You know I'd rather be your wife in our house of dreams and fulfillment than a queen in a palace. -- L.m. Montgomery
Influence other people for good. -- L.m. Montgomery
The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr," remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. "It is the most contented sound in the world. -- L.m. Montgomery
I'm in the depths of despair! (Anne of Green Gables) -- L.m. Montgomery
You wanted to be Mrs. and Mrs. you shall be with a vengeance as far as I am concerned." Miss -- L.m. Montgomery
closed behind Anne -- L.m. Montgomery
Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back? -- L.m. Montgomery
Jimmy Murray, you are an ass,' said Aunt Ruth, angrily.
'Well, we're cousins,' agreed Cousin Jimmy pleasantly. -- L.m. Montgomery
She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne. -- L.m. Montgomery
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 ... -- L.m. Montgomery
I like teaching, too," said Gilbert. "It's good training, for one thing. Why, Anne, I've learned more in the weeks I've been teaching the young ideas of White Sands than I learned in all the years I went to school myself. -- L.m. Montgomery
She thought in exclamation points -- L.m. Montgomery
And yet... you wouldn't want it to stop hurting... you wouldn't want to forget your little mother even if you could. -- L.m. Montgomery
When he said good evening you felt that it was a good evening and that it was partly his doing that it was. -- L.m. Montgomery
Big guns are good but the Almighty is better, and He is on our side, no matter what the Kaiser says about it. -- L.m. Montgomery
If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't. -- L.m. Montgomery
There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won't talk back - unless it is a woman who won't. -- L.m. Montgomery
For the next fortnight Anne writhed or reveled, according to mood, in her literary pursuits. Now she would be jubilant over a brilliant idea, now despairing because some contrary character would NOT behave properly. -- L.m. Montgomery
Anne was kneeling at the west gable window watching the sunset sky that was like a great flower with petals of crocus and a heart of fiery yellow. -- L.m. Montgomery
Anne has as many shades as a rainbow and every shade is the prettiest while it lasts. -- L.m. Montgomery
It doesn't seem FAIR, said Anne rebelliously. Babies are born and live where they are not wanted-where they will be neglected-where they have no chance. I would have loved my baby so-and cared for it tenderly-and tried to give her every chance for good. And yet I wasn't allowed to keep her. -- L.m. Montgomery
Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays. -- L.m. Montgomery
... I'm afraid Katherine likes me so much now that she can't always like me as much ... -- L.m. Montgomery
... could not have understood what perverted shaped thwarted love can take. -- L.m. Montgomery
The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only - a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels. -- L.m. Montgomery
It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that 'this, too, will pass away. -- L.m. Montgomery
There was another occupant of the living-room, curled up on a couch, who must not be overlooked, since he was a creature of marked individuality, and, moreover, had the distinction of being the only living thing whom Susan really hated. -- L.m. Montgomery
Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting. -- L.m. Montgomery
be still my beating heart... -- L.m. Montgomery
The folks who lived before me have done so much for me that I want to show my gratitude by doing something for the folks who will live after me. -- L.m. Montgomery
She had ... the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things. -- L.m. Montgomery
Do you know what I think about the new moon, teacher? I think it is a little golden boat full of dreams. And when it tips on a cloud some of them spill out and fall into your sleep. -- L.m. Montgomery
Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet? -- L.m. Montgomery
In daylight I belong to the world ... in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself ... and you -- L.m. Montgomery
What was Latin and the chance of tattooing compared to this? -- L.m. Montgomery
Let me remind you that the measure of anyone's freedom is what he can do without. -- L.m. Montgomery
You could not fence with an antagonist who met rapier thrust with blow of battle axe. -- L.m. Montgomery
Anne: "But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice".
Marilla: "I don't know as that's much benefit when you're always making new ones". -- L.m. Montgomery
It's wonderful to have ambition. -- L.m. Montgomery
We belong to the race that knows Joseph -- L.m. Montgomery
The trouble with Mr. Howard is that he's a leetle TOO clever. He thinks that he's bound to live up to his cleverness, and that it's smarter to thrash out some new way of getting to heaven than to go by the old track the common, ignorant folks is travelling. But -- L.m. Montgomery
You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it? -- L.m. Montgomery
The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth. -- L.m. Montgomery
I couldn't sew on a day like this. There's something in the air that gets in the blood and makes a sort of glory in my soul. My fingers would twitch and I'd sew a crooked seam. So it's ho for the park and the pines. -- L.m. Montgomery
What a splendid day!' said Anne, drawing a long breath. 'Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it. They may have good days, of course, but they can never have this one. -- L.m. Montgomery
There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves
so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful. -- L.m. Montgomery
But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one? -- L.m. Montgomery
It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think. -- L.m. Montgomery
It isn't fair she should have everything and I nothing. She isn't better or cleverer or much prettier than me ... only luckier. -- L.m. Montgomery
Strange, ain't it, how folks seem to resent anyone being born a mite cleverer than they be. -- L.m. Montgomery
Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them
that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting. -- L.m. Montgomery
silent. Walter had been reading again that day in his beloved book of myths and he remembered how he had once fancied the Pied Piper coming down the valley on an evening -- L.m. Montgomery
If only she were a boy, speeding in khaki by Carol's side to the western front! She had wished that in a burst of romance when Jem had gone, without perhaps, meaning it. She meant it now. There were moments when waiting at home, in safety and comfort, seemed an unendurable thing. -- L.m. Montgomery
My pen shall heal, not hurt. -- L.m. Montgomery
Oh yes, I don't deny I married you because I was sorry for you. And then-I found you the best and jolliest and dearest little pal and chum a fellow ever had. Witty-loyal-sweet. You made me believe again in the reality of friendship and love. -- L.m. Montgomery
you didn't to-night. -- L.m. Montgomery
I'm afraid to speak or move for fear that all this wonderful beauty will just vanish ... like a broken silence. -- L.m. Montgomery
The p'int of good writing is to know when to stop. -- L.m. Montgomery
Once in a thousand years, you know, one cat is allowed to speak. My cats are philosophers-neither of them ever cries over spilt milk. -- L.m. Montgomery
Anyhow, we've decided on the experiment and goodness only knows what will come of it. -- L.m. Montgomery
Oh, what I know about myself isn't really worth telling, said Anne eagerly. If you'll only let me tell you what I imagine about myself you'll think it ever so much more interesting. -- L.m. Montgomery
He world looks like something God had just imagined for His own pleasure. This isn't poetry but it makes me feel the same way as poetry does. -- L.m. Montgomery
As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain hidden deep in Emily's nature - the strain of the gypsy and the poet, the genius and the fool. -- L.m. Montgomery
And I have such a cold in the head - I can do nothing but sniffle, sigh and sneeze. Isn't that alliterative agony for you? -- L.m. Montgomery
Even Billy Andrews' boy is going - and Jane's only son - and Diana's little Jack," said Mrs. Blythe. "Priscilla's son has gone from Japan and Stella's from Vancouver - and both the Rev. Jo's boys. Philippa writes that her boys 'went right away, not being afflicted with her indecision. -- L.m. Montgomery
But I'd rather look like you than be pretty, she told Anne sincerely.
Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting. -- L.m. Montgomery
My future seemed to stretch before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the very best does. - Anne Shirley -- L.m. Montgomery
There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen. -- L.m. Montgomery
I don't believe Old Nick can be so very ugly,' said Aunt Jamesina reflectively. 'He wouldn't do so much harm if he was. I always think of him as a rather handsome gentleman. -- L.m. Montgomery
what is to be thanked for this. I did -- L.m. Montgomery
People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne. -- L.m. Montgomery
We ought always to try to influence others for good. -- L.m. Montgomery
Which would you rather be if you had the choice
divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good? -- L.m. Montgomery
I have got acquainted with Lofty John. Ilse is a great friend of his and often goes there to watch him working in his carpenter shop. He says he has made enough ladders to get to heaven without the priest but that is just his joke. -- L.m. Montgomery
There's one thing plain to be seen, Anne," said Marilla, "and that is that your fall off the Barry roof hasn't injured your tongue at all. -- L.m. Montgomery
Imagination is what you need. -- L.m. Montgomery
Outside in the garden, which was full of mellow sunset light streaming through the dark old firs to the west of it, stood Anne and Diana, gazing bashfully at each other over a clump of gorgeous tiger lilies. -- L.m. Montgomery
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden
only ugliness and deformity. -- L.m. Montgomery
Marilla, what if I fail!'
'You'll hardly fail completely in one day and there's plenty more days coming,' said Marilla. -- L.m. Montgomery
I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then. -- L.m. Montgomery
She dropped miserably on the first chair she came to and sat there staring through the oriel, oblivious of Good Luck's frantic purrs of joy and Banjo's savage glares of protest at her occupancy of his chair. -- L.m. Montgomery
Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it ... -- L.m. Montgomery
Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change! -- L.m. Montgomery
The sun was setting over Rainbow Valley. The pond was wearing a wonderful tissue of purple and gold and green and crimson. A faint blue haze rested on the eastern hill, over which a great, pale, round moon was just floating up like a silver bubble. They -- L.m. Montgomery
When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out. -- L.m. Montgomery
And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone. -- L.m. Montgomery
If we have friends we should look only for the best in them and give them the best that is in us, don't you think? -- L.m. Montgomery
The greatest happiness [ ... ] is to sneeze when you want to. -- L.m. Montgomery
When weeds go to heaven, I suppose they will be flowers. -- L.m. Montgomery
If I wasn't a human girl I think I'd like to be a bee and live among the flowers. -- L.m. Montgomery
I'm like Kipling's cat - I walk by my wild lone and wave my wild tail where so it pleases me. -- L.m. Montgomery
How are you going to find out about things if you don't ask questions? -- L.m. Montgomery
I never knew before that religion was such a cheerful thing. I always thought it was kind of melancholy, but Mrs. Allan's isn't, and I'd like to be a Christian if I could be one like her. -- L.m. Montgomery
And as for risk, there's risk in pretty near everything a body does in this world. - Marilla Cuthbert -- L.m. Montgomery
I'm afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life. -- L.m. Montgomery
All your life Davy, you'll find yourself doing things you don't want to do - Anne Shirley -- L.m. Montgomery
I can't feel exactly happy ... Nobody could that has red hair -- L.m. Montgomery
whenever we think of anything that
is a trial to us we should also think of something
nice that we can set over against it. -- L.m. Montgomery
I've made up my mind to enjoy this drive. It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. Of course, you must make it up FIRMLY. -- L.m. Montgomery
It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. -- L.m. Montgomery
If one could only feel always like this," Pat had said once to Judy. "All the little worries swallowed up ... all the petty spites and fears and disappointments forgotten ... just love and peace and beauty."
"Oh, oh, but what wud there be lift for heaven, girl dear?" asked Judy. -- L.m. Montgomery
Of course it's better to be good. I know it is but it's sometimes so hard to believe a thing even when you know it -- L.m. Montgomery
It was a lovely afternoon - such an afternoon as only September can produce when summer has stolen back for one more day of dream and glamour. -- L.m. Montgomery
All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness. -- L.m. Montgomery
There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92) -- L.m. Montgomery
Don't let them make anything of you but yourself, that's all. -- L.m. Montgomery
Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel. -- L.m. Montgomery
Never on painter's canvas lives
The charm of his fancy's dream. -- L.m. Montgomery
I do like a road, because you can be always wondering what is at the end of it. -- L.m. Montgomery
Anne, are you killed?' shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. 'Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed. -- L.m. Montgomery
Oh, I think some parts of it are fine," conceded Davy. "That story about Joseph now - it's bully. But if I'd been Joseph Iwouldn't have forgive the brothers. No, siree, Anne. I'd have cut all their heads off. -- L.m. Montgomery
There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting. -- L.m. Montgomery
From Europe. They had been away for three months, having left in February to attend a famous medical congress in London; and certain things, which -- L.m. Montgomery
Mrs. Hammon told me that God made my hair red on purpose and I haven't card for him since. -- L.m. Montgomery
It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things. -- L.m. Montgomery
I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory. -- L.m. Montgomery
Is it Rilla-my-Rilla? -- L.m. Montgomery
Mrs. Lynde says Mrs. Wrights grandfather stole a sheep but Marilla says we mustent speak ill of the dead. Why mustent we, Anne? I want to know. It's pretty safe ain't it? -- L.m. Montgomery
what perverted shapes thwarted love can take. Little -- L.m. Montgomery
Life may be a vale of tears, all right, but there are some folks who enjoy weeping, I reckon. -- L.m. Montgomery
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world. -- L.m. Montgomery
I like babies in moderation, but twins three times in succession is TOO MUCH. I told Mrs. Hammond so firmly, when the last pair came. -- L.m. Montgomery
If the bards of old the true has told
The sirens have raven hair.
But over the earth since art had birth,
They paint the angels fair. -- L.m. Montgomery
There is so much in the world for us if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it ourselves- so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful for. -- L.m. Montgomery
And it seemed to me, too, that I've always been afraid when I was in the company of people ... afraid of saying something stupid ... afraid of being laughed at. -- L.m. Montgomery
Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world can't make up for the lack of it. ~Aunt Josephine to Anne in Anne Of Green Gables -- L.m. Montgomery
Well, one must be a slave to something in this kind of a world,' he said. -- L.m. Montgomery
Out of your world perhaps, Susan - but not out of mine,' said Anne with a faint smile. -- L.m. Montgomery
Marilla, look at that big star over Mr. Harrison's maple grove, with all that hold hush of silvery sky about it. I gives me a feeling that is like a prayer. After all, when one can see stars and skies like that, little disappointments and accidents can't matter so much, can they? -- L.m. Montgomery
Never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral. -- L.m. Montgomery
Marilla is eighty-five," said Anne with a sigh. "Her hair is snow-white. But, strange to say, her eyesight is better than it was when she was sixty. -- L.m. Montgomery
Oh, I know I'm a great trial to you, Marilla," said Anne repentantly. "I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might. -- L.m. Montgomery
It's fun to be almost grown up in some ways, but it's not the kind of fun I expected, Marilla. There's so much to learn and do and think that there isn't time for big words. -- L.m. Montgomery
In geometry Anne met her Waterloo. "It's perfectly awful stuff, Marilla," she groaned. "I'm sure I'll never be able to make heads or tail of it. There is not scope for imagination in it at all. -- L.m. Montgomery
ANNE: You said you'd keep me in my room until I confessed. I just thought up a good confession and made it as interesting as I could.
MARILLA: But it was still a lie.
ANNE: You wouldn't believe the truth. -- L.m. Montgomery
Rachel will be left pretty lonely if anything happens to him, with all her children settled out west, except Eliza in town; and she doesn't like her husband. Marilla's pronouns slandered Eliza, who was very fond of her husband. -- L.m. Montgomery
Don't you ever imagine things differently than what they are? Oh, Marilla, how much you miss. -- L.m. Montgomery
Marilla lighted a candle and -- L.m. Montgomery
Marilla felt this and was vaguely troubled over it, realizing that the ups and downs of existence would probably bear hardly on this impulsive soul and not sufficiently understanding that the equally great capacity for delight might more than compensate. -- L.m. Montgomery
Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven. -- L.m. Montgomery
Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously ... -- L.m. Montgomery
Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have sprained my ankle. But, Marilla, I might have broken my neck. Let us look on the bright side of things. -- L.m. Montgomery
Miss Barry, who was sitting behind them, leaned forward and poked Marilla in the back with her parasol. -- L.m. Montgomery
Leaving this Parthian shaft to rankle in Anne's stormy bosom, Marilla descended to the kitchen, grievously troubled in mind and vexed in soul. -- L.m. Montgomery
A seafaring uncle had given it to her mother who in turn had bequeathed it to Marilla. It was an old-fashioned oval, containing a braid of her mother's hair, surrounded by a border of very fine amethysts. -- L.m. Montgomery
Oh, Marilla," she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming dancing
in with her arms full of gorgeous boughs" 'I'm so glad I live in
a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we
just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it? -- L.m. Montgomery
Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality. -- L.m. Montgomery
I don't think there is much fear of your dying of grief as long as you can talk, Anne," said Marilla unsympathetically. -- L.m. Montgomery
At sunset the little soul that had come with the dawning went away, leaving heartbreak behind it -- L.m. Montgomery
Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places. -- L.m. Montgomery
Dress - because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while - and -- L.m. Montgomery
I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial," said Anne, rather scornfully. "Nobody would expect two blacksmiths to be violently attracted toward each other merely because they were both blacksmiths. -- L.m. Montgomery
I detest that woman [Rachel Lynde] more than anybody I know. She can put a whole sermon, text, comment, and application, into six words, and throw it at you like a brick. -- L.m. Montgomery
I'm not in the depths of despair this morning. I never can be in the morning. Isn't it a splendid thing that there are mornings? -- L.m. Montgomery
People who have to look after twins can't be expected to say their prayers. Now, do you honestly think they can? -- L.m. Montgomery
A favor is never so long-lived as a grudge. -- L.m. Montgomery
But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne. -- L.m. Montgomery
I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry ... and I think it's nicer ... ' Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed ... 'to look at it through poetry. -- L.m. Montgomery
But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot. -- L.m. Montgomery
Having adventures comes naturally to some people. You just have a gift for them or you don't have - Anne Shirley -- L.m. Montgomery
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. -- L.m. Montgomery
Every morn is a fresh beginning, Every morn is the world made new, -- L.m. Montgomery
Old Mr. Towers believed exactly what he preached and somehow it made a tremendous difference. -- L.m. Montgomery
Anyone who has sympathy and understanding to give has a treasure that is without money and without price. -- L.m. Montgomery
I think it would be charitable to believe that he was mistaken about -- L.m. Montgomery
I've had a splendid time," she concluded happily, "and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home. -- L.m. Montgomery
He was a cat of double personality - or else, as Susan vowed, he was possessed by the devil. -- L.m. Montgomery
Charlotte had never forgotten it - she was always looking for it. An old house facing seaward, ships going up and down. Spruce woods and musty hills, cold salt air from the water, rest, quiet, silence. -- L.m. Montgomery
It would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine -- L.m. Montgomery
It never rains but it pours -- L.m. Montgomery
Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires. -- L.m. Montgomery
A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter. -- L.m. Montgomery
Let your spirit soar to heaven with it whenever you use it, like the bird who once bore it. -- L.m. Montgomery
Mrs. Spencer said that my tongue must be hung in the middle. But it isn't - it's firmly fastened at one end. -- L.m. Montgomery
Teddy was feeling as miserable and impotently angry as any male creature does when two women are quarreling about him in his presence. He wished himself a thousand miles away. -- L.m. Montgomery
It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering. -- L.m. Montgomery
... it's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness ... -- L.m. Montgomery
There's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own. -- L.m. Montgomery
Pride is cold company -- L.m. Montgomery
Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you! -- L.m. Montgomery
It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night. -- L.m. Montgomery
If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can. -- L.m. Montgomery
I don't really care what people think about me if they don't let me see it. -- L.m. Montgomery
You see," she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space
I belong to him. He doesn't love me
he never will
but I belong to him. -- L.m. Montgomery
I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. -- L.m. Montgomery
All things great are wound up with all things little. -- L.m. Montgomery
Revenge hurts nobody quite so much as the one who tries to inflict it. -- L.m. Montgomery
Mr. Harrison is an awful kind man. He's a real sociable man. I hope I'll be like him when I grow up. I mean BEHAVE like him ... I don't want to LOOK like him. -- L.m. Montgomery
I don't want her to be like other people. There are too many other people around as it is. -- L.m. Montgomery
Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong. -- L.m. Montgomery
Don't believe in everything you see girls, and only half of what you hear. -- L.m. Montgomery
Don't be ridiculous, please.'
The most insulting words in the world! -- L.m. Montgomery
You know if we've got anything about us that hurts we shrink from anyone's touch on or near it. It holds good with our souls as well as our bodies, I reckon. Leslie's soul must be near raw - it's no wonder she hides it away. -- L.m. Montgomery
So said Mrs. Rachel to the wild rose bushes out of the fullness of her heart; but if she could have seen the child who was waiting patiently at the Bright River station at that very moment her pity would have been still deeper and more profound. -- L.m. Montgomery
Chapter 8 Anne's First Proposal The -- L.m. Montgomery
Grief is ever proud. -- L.m. Montgomery
I think you had better learn to control that imagination of yours,Anne, if you can't distinguish between what is real and what isnt. -- L.m. Montgomery
She wondered if old dreams could haunt rooms - if, when one left forever the room where she had joyed and suffered and laughed and wept, something of her, intangible and invisible, yet nonetheless real, did not remain behind like a voiceful memory. -- L.m. Montgomery
Jane's stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.
-Anne Shirley -- L.m. Montgomery
I think the little things in life often cause more trouble than the big things - Anne Shirley -- L.m. Montgomery
People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them. -- L.m. Montgomery
I don't believe I'd really want to be a sensible person, because they are so unromantic. -- L.m. Montgomery
After all, it was nice to be loved than to be rich and admired and famous. -- L.m. Montgomery
He walked jauntily away, being hungry, and the unfortunate Matthew was left to do that which was harder for him than bearding a lion in its den - walk up to a girl - a strange girl - an orphan girl - and demand of her why she wasn't a boy. -- L.m. Montgomery
crimson. A faint blue haze rested on the eastern hill, over which a great, pale, round moon was just floating up like a silver bubble. They were -- L.m. Montgomery
One does not sleep well, sometimes, when one is twenty-nine on the morrow, and unmarried, in a community and connection where the unmarried are simply those who have failed to get a man. -- L.m. Montgomery
I have made up my mind that I will never marry. I shall be wedded to my art. -- L.m. Montgomery
But it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by a happiness that is not your own. -- L.m. Montgomery
We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement. -- L.m. Montgomery
For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won. -- L.m. Montgomery
Don't give up all your romance Anne, a little of it is a good thing - not too much of course-but keep a little of it - Matthew Cuthbert -- L.m. Montgomery
At life's banquet of success I may not be the guest of honor, but I'll be among those present. -- L.m. Montgomery
She was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal. -- L.m. Montgomery
It was really dreadful to be so different from other people ... and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star. -- L.m. Montgomery
Besides, I've been feeling a little blue - just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker. -- L.m. Montgomery
Away down at the far end of the lake they got every night a glimpse of a big, continental train rushing through a clearing. Valancy liked to watch its lighted windows flash by and wonder who was on it and what hopes and fears it carried. -- L.m. Montgomery
The only thing you can be sure of in this world is the multiplication table. -- L.m. Montgomery
The other day I found this statement in a book. 'Her voice would have made the multiplication table charming!' I thought of it when I heard yours. I didn't believe it before, but I do now. -- L.m. Montgomery
Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers. -- L.m. Montgomery
Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you. -- L.m. Montgomery
A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself. -- L.m. Montgomery
I reckon the gods laugh many a time to hear us, but what matters so long as we remember that we're only men and don't take to fancying that we're gods ourselves, really, knowing good and evil. -- L.m. Montgomery
We are fighting to make those dear old places where
we had played as children, safe for other boys and girls--fighting for the preservation and safety of all sweet, wholesome things. -- L.m. Montgomery
Heaven grant me patience! Clothes are very important, said Anne severely -- L.m. Montgomery
When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding. -- L.m. Montgomery
What's the matter with you, Penny? You're not as good looking as you generally believe you are. -- L.m. Montgomery
Where to blow from next for sheer crazy delight -- L.m. Montgomery
War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations. -- L.m. Montgomery
I am teaching Perry grammar. He says he wants to learn to speak properly. I told him he should not call his Aunt Tom an old beast but he said he had to because she wasn't a young beast. -- L.m. Montgomery
Fear is the original sin," wrote John Foster. "Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something. -- L.m. Montgomery
What a spineless thing I must be not to have one enemy! -- L.m. Montgomery
I hate to lend a book I love ... it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me ... -- L.m. Montgomery
There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them. -- L.m. Montgomery
Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you. -- L.m. Montgomery
Everybody is a little insane on some points -- L.m. Montgomery
I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage. -- L.m. Montgomery
That's the worst ... or the best ... of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable ... and succeeding ... even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic. -- L.m. Montgomery
We always hate people who surprise our secrets ... -- L.m. Montgomery
Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well but there is more 'scope for the imagination without them. - Anne Shirley -- L.m. Montgomery
Time is kinder than we think,' thought Anne. 'It's a dreadful mistake to cherish bitterness for years ... hugging it to our hearts like a treasure. -- L.m. Montgomery
It is twenty-four years since I was a bride at old Green Gables - the happiest bride that ever was - and the wedding-veil of a happy bride brings good luck, -- L.m. Montgomery
Anne looked up. Tall and handsome and distinguished-looking - dark, melancholy, inscrutable eyes - melting, musical, sympathetic voice - yes, the very hero of her dreams stood before her in the flesh. He could not have more closely resembled her ideal if he -- L.m. Montgomery
Of unquenchable sparkle and dream as ever. Behind her, in the hammock, Rilla Blythe was curled up, a fat, roly-poly little creature of -- L.m. Montgomery
Well, I should like to see you go to college, Anne, but if you never do, don't grow discontented about it. We make our own lives wherever we are, after all... college can only help us do it more easily. -- L.m. Montgomery
I shall govern by affection, Mr. Harrison. -- L.m. Montgomery
It doesn't matter if a man does use bad grammar so long as he is a good provider and doesn't go poking round the pantry to see how much sugar you've used in a week. -- L.m. Montgomery
Tommy and Adam Cowan, over at Markdale, are twins; and they're both cross-eyed. So I s'posed that was what being twins meant. -- L.m. Montgomery
Anne Shirley, how often have I told you never to let one of those Italians in the house! I don't believe in encouraging them to come around at all. -- L.m. Montgomery
Well, well, we can't get through this world without our share of trouble. I've had a pretty easy life of it so far, but my time has come at last and I suppose I'll just have to make the best of it. -- L.m. Montgomery
I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves. -- L.m. Montgomery
Saying one's prayers isn't exactly the same thing as praying. -- L.m. Montgomery
Another story was that a certain dissipated youth of the community, going home one Saturday night, or rather Sunday morning, from some unhallowed orgy, was pursued by a lamb of fire, with its head cut off and hanging by a strip of skin or flame. -- L.m. Montgomery
It's a very bad habit to put off disagreeable things ... -- L.m. Montgomery
Clouds of the golden west between its softly dark shores. The sea moaned eerily on the sand-bar, sorrowful even in spring, but a -- L.m. Montgomery
Yet he may have committed what might be considered far greater sins that yet would not inflict on any one a tithe of the humiliation which his teasing inflicted on a child's sensitive mind. -- L.m. Montgomery
Only lonely people keep diaries -- L.m. Montgomery
I won't be reasonable - I can't be reasonable - I AM reasonable. -- L.m. Montgomery
Oh hearts that loved in the good old way have been out of fashion this many a day -- L.m. Montgomery
Look, do you see that poem?' she said suddenly, pointing. -- L.m. Montgomery
And he says he doesn't believe all the heathen will be eternally lost. The idea! If they won't all the money we've been giving to Foreign Missions will be clean wasted, that's what! -- L.m. Montgomery
It was not, of course, a proper thing to do. But then I have never pretended, nor will ever pretend, that Emily was a proper child. Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull nobody would read them. -- L.m. Montgomery
P.S.2. I have put in a new pen. And I love you because you aren't pompous like Dr. Carter ... and I love you because you haven't got sticky-out ears like Johnny. And ... the very best reason of all ... I love you for just being Gilbert! -- L.m. Montgomery
Dreams don't often come true, do they? Wouldn't it be nice if they did? -- L.m. Montgomery
But is there not something strange about any room that has been occupied through generations? Death has lurked in it ... love has been rosy red in it ... births have been here ... all the passions ... all the hopes. It is full of wraths. -- L.m. Montgomery
But it's a million times nicer to be Anne of Green Gables than Anne of nowhere in particular, isn't it? -- L.m. Montgomery
Dear old world. You are very lovely and I am glad to be alive in you - Anne Shirley -- L.m. Montgomery
It's so easy to be happy on a day like this. -- L.m. Montgomery
Oh, drat the men! No matter what they do, it's the wrong thing. And no matter who they are, it's somebody they shouldn't be. They do exasperate me.
Anne's House of Dreams -- L.m. Montgomery
Was a new family in the manse. And such a family! Miss Cornelia shook her head over them several times as she walked briskly along. Susan Baker -- L.m. Montgomery
You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets. -- L.m. Montgomery
Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart. -- L.m. Montgomery
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. -- L.m. Montgomery
I am of one mind with the Irishman who said you could get used to anything, even to being hanged! -- L.m. Montgomery
Having adventures comes natural to some people", said Anne serenely. "You just have a gift for them or you haven't. -- L.m. Montgomery
Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse. -- L.m. Montgomery
sand-bar, sorrowful -- L.m. Montgomery
Well, hope for your thrilling career - but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay the piper in the coin of suffering. If not you - then someone else. -- L.m. Montgomery
She never said anything that would hurt anyone's feelings - which may be a negative talent but is likewise a rare and enviable one. -- L.m. Montgomery
When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away. -- L.m. Montgomery
How those girls enjoyed putting their nest in order! As Phil said, it was almost as good as getting married. You had the fun of homemaking without the bother of a husband. -- L.m. Montgomery
That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison. -- L.m. Montgomery
Some are born old maids, some achieve old maidenhood, and some have old maidenhood thrust upon them , parodied Miss Lavendar whimsically. -- L.m. Montgomery
Some women's intended from the start to be old maids, and I'm afraid I'm one of them, Miss Shirley, ma'am, because I've awful little patience with the men. -- L.m. Montgomery
Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world. -- L.m. Montgomery
What is the matter with Harrison Miller, anyway? -- L.m. Montgomery
The lines and verses are only the outward garments of the poem and are no more really it than your ruffles and flounces are YOU, -- L.m. Montgomery
face. Walter reeled a little. The pain of the blow tingled through all his sensitive frame for a moment. Then he felt pain no longer. Something, such as he had never experienced before, seemed to -- L.m. Montgomery
Handmaiden of the Blythe family at Ingleside, never lost an opportunity of calling her "Mrs. Marshall Elliott," with the most killing and pointed emphasis, as if -- L.m. Montgomery
The day never goes by for men and nations to make asses of themselves and take to the fists. -- L.m. Montgomery
Don't look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can't be sober and serious - everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me. -- L.m. Montgomery
Good behavior in the first place is more important than theatrical apologies afterwards. -- L.m. Montgomery
Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it. -- L.m. Montgomery
The boys like me as a pal but I don't believe anyone will ever really fall in love with me."
"Nonsense," said Emily reassuringly. "Nine out of ten men will fall in love with you."
"But it will be the tenth I'll want," persisted Ilse gloomily. -- L.m. Montgomery
Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade. -- L.m. Montgomery
I kind of think she's one of the sort you can do anything with if you only get her to love you. -- L.m. Montgomery
Don't be fretting ... about me marrying. Marrying's a trouble and not marrying's a trouble and I sticks to the trouble I knows. -- L.m. Montgomery
Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned. -- L.m. Montgomery
Isn't it a pity we can't have two husbands? One to look at and one to talk to. -- L.m. Montgomery
If you believe in a thing it doesn't matter whether it exists or not -- L.m. Montgomery
Charitable Impulse XXV. Another Scandal and Another "Explanation" XXVI. Miss Cornelia Gets a New Point of View XXVII. A Sacred Concert XXVIII. A Fast Day XXIX. A Weird Tale -- L.m. Montgomery
... you'll be spared an awful lot of trouble if you die young. -- L.m. Montgomery
It has taught me a lesson not to give my word of honor about cows. -- L.m. Montgomery
It almost seemed to her that those secret, unuttered, critical thoughts had suddenly taken visible and accusing shape and form in the person of this outspoken morsel of neglected humanity. -- L.m. Montgomery
But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her. -- L.m. Montgomery
It's the worst kind of cruelty - the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it. -- L.m. Montgomery
It's the homiest spot I ever saw-it's homier than home avowed Philippa Gorden, looking about her with delighted eyes. -- L.m. Montgomery
I can't cheer up - I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable! -- L.m. Montgomery
God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly. -- L.m. Montgomery
Long ago, before I had ever seen a diamond, I read about them and I tried to imagine what they would be like ... When I saw a real diamond in a lady's ring one day I was so disappointed I cried. Of course, it was very lovely but it wasn't my idea of a diamond. -- L.m. Montgomery
When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far. -- L.m. Montgomery
I can always get through to-day very nicely. It's to-morrow I can't live through -- L.m. Montgomery
Changes ain't totally pleasant but they're excellent things... Two years is about long enough for things to stay exactly the same. If they stayed put any longer they might grow mossy. -- L.m. Montgomery
Pussy, however, refused to get down. -- L.m. Montgomery
I heard someone once say that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life. -- L.m. Montgomery
I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human. -- L.m. Montgomery
You don't know love when you see it. You've tricked something out with your imagination that you think love, and you expect the real thing to look like that. -- L.m. Montgomery
Don't give up all your romance, Anne," he whispered shyly, "a little bit is a good thing - not too much, of course, but keep a little of it, Anne, keep a little of it. -- L.m. Montgomery
Oh, Miss Shirley, can you smell the apple-blossom fragrance?" Having a nose, Anne could. -- L.m. Montgomery
Gets up and testifies every night, and cheats the very -- L.m. Montgomery
He was so lonely that he laughed at himself. -- L.m. Montgomery
Gilbert, having tried to please both sides, succeeded, as is usual and eminently right, in pleasing neither. -- L.m. Montgomery
It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable. -- L.m. Montgomery
I could spank Constantine and skin him alive afterwards, that I could," she exclaimed bitterly.
"Oh, Susan, I'm surprised at you," said the doctor, pulling a long face. "Have you no regard for the proprieties? Skin him alive by all means but omit the spanking. -- L.m. Montgomery
Faint heart never won fair lady as the Good Book says. -- L.m. Montgomery
One can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world. -- L.m. Montgomery
Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love. -- L.m. Montgomery
You were never poor as long as you had something to love. -- L.m. Montgomery
Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets? -- L.m. Montgomery
And yet ... it's the little things that fret the holes in life ... like moths ... and ruin it. -- L.m. Montgomery
We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts. -- L.m. Montgomery
Thirty seconds can be very long sometimes. Long enough to work a miracle or a revolution. -- L.m. Montgomery
One could have eaten a meal off the ground without overbrimming the proverbial peck of dirt. Mrs. -- L.m. Montgomery
I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful. -- L.m. Montgomery
Chapter 15 A Tempest in the School Teapot -- L.m. Montgomery
An infinite Power must be infinitely little as well as infinitely great. We are neither, therefore there are things too little as well as too great for us to apprehend. -- L.m. Montgomery
Even eighty-odd is sometimes vulnerable to vanity. -- L.m. Montgomery
Have you ever noticed," asked Anne reflectively, "that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you? -- L.m. Montgomery
everything is foreordained and it was bound to happen anyway. But even so, it's nice to think one was an instrument used by predestination. -- L.m. Montgomery
Is there laughter in your face yet, Rilla? I hope so. The world will need laughter and courage more than ever in the years that will come next. I don't want to preach - this isn't any time for it. -- L.m. Montgomery
Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are. -- L.m. Montgomery
Rilla meant to keep Walter's letter as a a sacred treasure. -- L.m. Montgomery
I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter) -- L.m. Montgomery
Rilla's heart skipped a beat - or, if that be a pysiological impossibility, she thought it did. -- L.m. Montgomery
Our sacrifice is greater than his," cried Rilla passionately. "Our boys give only themselves. We give them. -- L.m. Montgomery
There are--plenty--without you."
"That isn't the point, Rilla-my-Rilla. I'm going for my own sake--to save my soul alive. It will shrink to something small and mean and lifeless if I don't go. That would be worse than blindness or mutilation or any of the things I've feared. -- L.m. Montgomery
Chippy, pulling his hand from Rilla's. Rilla -- L.m. Montgomery
I doubted God last Sunday " said Rilla "but I don't doubt Him today. Evil cannot win. Spirit is on our side and it is bound to outlast flesh. -- L.m. Montgomery
But would you believe it? I couldn't remember one word when I woke up this morning. And I'm afraid I'll never be able to think out another one as good. Somehow, things never are so good when they're thought out a second time. Have you ever noticed that? -- L.m. Montgomery
When a man don't know his own mind, Miss Shirley, ma'am, how's a poor woman going to be sure of it? -- L.m. Montgomery
But the way girls roam over the earth now is something terrible. It always makes me think of Satan in the Book of Job, going to and fro and walking up and down. -- L.m. Montgomery
How difficult it is to realize that one we have always known can really be dead, said Anne, -- L.m. Montgomery
That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them. -- L.m. Montgomery
An old house that had lived its life long ago and so was very quiet and wise and a little mysterious. Also a little austere, but very kind. -- L.m. Montgomery
You will go far beyond what I have done - you can create - I can only build with the materials others have made. But we builders have our place - we can make temples for our gods and goddesses if nothing else. -- L.m. Montgomery
You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead. -- L.m. Montgomery
We... Charlotta the Fourth and I... live in defiance of every known law of diet." ~ Miss Lavendar, chap 27 -- L.m. Montgomery
Ah, children are not what they were in my young days. They listened to their parents then. -- L.m. Montgomery
She will love deeply
suffer terribly
she will have glorious moments to compensate. -- L.m. Montgomery
Heaven must be very beautiful, of course, the Bible says so - but, Anne, it won't be what I've been used to. -- L.m. Montgomery
I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape.
'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you. -- L.m. Montgomery
Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death? -- L.m. Montgomery
Some sounds are so exquisite - far more exquisite than anything seen. Daff's purr there on my rug, for instance - and the snap and crackle of the fire - and the squeaks and scrambles of mice that are having a jamboree behind the wainscot. -- L.m. Montgomery
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't. -- L.m. Montgomery
Once upon a time--which, when you come to think of it, is really
the only proper way to begin a story--the only way that really
smacks of romance and fairyland-- -- L.m. Montgomery
It's so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding. -- L.m. Montgomery
To dispair is to turn your back on God. -- L.m. Montgomery
I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry. - Martin Harris -- L.m. Montgomery
Not lovelier. But a different kind of loveliness. There are so many kinds of loveliness. -- L.m. Montgomery
We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day. -- L.m. Montgomery
God is in His heaven. All is right in the world. -- L.m. Montgomery
[Anne, commenting on city life]
I think I would probably come to the conclusion that I'd like it for a while ... but in the end, I'd still prefer the sound of the wind in the firs across the brook more than the tinkling of crystal. -- L.m. Montgomery
The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did. -- L.m. Montgomery
Mr. Harrison was certainly different from other people ... and that is the essential characteristic of a crank, as everybody knows. -- L.m. Montgomery
You'll just pamper Anne's vanity, Matthew, and she's as vain as a peacock now. -- L.m. Montgomery
Moonlight and the murmur of pines blended together so that one could hardly tell which was light and which was sound. -- L.m. Montgomery
My library isn't very extensive but every book in it is a friend. -- L.m. Montgomery
No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors. -- L.m. Montgomery
Her advice is much like pepper, I think ... excellent in small quantities but rather scorching in her doses. -- L.m. Montgomery
I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them. -- L.m. Montgomery
Don't be led away by those howls about realism. Remember-pine woods are just as real as pigsties and a darn sight pleasanter to be in. -- L.m. Montgomery
She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen. -- L.m. Montgomery
When will the others come?
And there is one who will never come. At least we will not see him if he does. But, oh, when I think he will be there
when our Canadian soldiers return there will be a shadow army with them
the army of the fallen. We will not *see* them
but they will be there! -- L.m. Montgomery
To "hike" along a deep-rutted, pebbly lane in frail, silver-hued slippers with high French heels, is not an exhilirating experience. -- L.m. Montgomery
It's been a long time since I've seen you, Palmer. But you're just the same, only more so. -- L.m. Montgomery
Well, I don't know," said the Story Girl thoughtfully. "I think there are two kinds of true thing - true things that are, and true things that are not, but might be. -- L.m. Montgomery
And over the river
in purple durance the
echoes bided there time. -- L.m. Montgomery
People say men are interesting. They may be. But I shall never get well enough acquainted with any of them to find out. -- L.m. Montgomery
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it. -- L.m. Montgomery
Mrs. Marshall Elliott, -- L.m. Montgomery
A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing... -- L.m. Montgomery
His face just looks like one of those long, narrow stones in the graveyard, doesn't it? 'Sacred to the memory' ought to be written on his forehead. -- L.m. Montgomery
Death grows friendlier as we grow older. -- L.m. Montgomery
Well, they're splendid to amuse children with," said Diana. "Fred and Small Anne look at the pictures by the hour." "I amused ten children without the aid of Eaton's catalogue," said Mrs. Rachel severely. -- L.m. Montgomery
We are schoolmates, I see," he said, smiling at Anne's colors. "That ought to be sufficient introduction. My name is Royal Gardner. -- L.m. Montgomery
He had also the reputation of being a bit of a lady killer. But that probably accrued to him from his possession of a laughing, velvety voice which no girl could hear without a heartbeat, and a dangerous way of listening as if she were saying something that he had longed all his life to hear. -- L.m. Montgomery
Despair is a free man - hope is
a slave. -- L.m. Montgomery
But of course I'd rather be Anne of Green
Gables sewing patchwork than Anne of any other place with nothing
to do but play. -- L.m. Montgomery
It's really splendid to imagine you are a queen. You have all the fun of it without any of the inconveniences and you can stop being a queen whenever you want to, which you couldn't in real life. -- L.m. Montgomery
-It is too hard yet to realize that they're grown up. When I look at those two tall sons of mine I wonder if they can possibly be the fat, sweet, dimpled babies I kissed and cuddled and sang to slumber the other day - only the other day ... -- L.m. Montgomery
I cannot remember the time when I was not writing, or when I did not mean to be a writer...I was an indefatigable scribbler -- L.m. Montgomery
Ah, well, let's not borrow trouble; the rate of interest is too high. -- L.m. Montgomery
I feel sorry now myself," admitted Davy, "but the trouble is I never feel sorry for doing things till after I've did them. -- L.m. Montgomery
I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better - the knack of making people like me. -- L.m. Montgomery
Something just flashes into your mind, so exciting, and you must out with it. If you stop to think it over, you spoil it all. -- L.m. Montgomery
If you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be left alone. -- L.m. Montgomery
You're a brick! You're a whole cartload of bricks. -- L.m. Montgomery
Anne, on her way to Orchard Slope, met Diana, bound for Green Gables, just where the mossy old log bridge spanned the brook below the Haunted Wood, and they sat down by the margin of the Dryad's Bubble, where tiny ferns were unrolling like curly-headed green pixy folk wakening up from a nap. -- L.m. Montgomery
A little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world. -- L.m. Montgomery
The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour. -- L.m. Montgomery
But oughtn't we to be prepared for the best too? It's just as likely to happen as the worst. -- L.m. Montgomery
Who is Mrs. Ford?" asked Una wonderingly. "Oh, -- L.m. Montgomery
If we never have any adventures we'll have nothing to remember when we get old. -- L.m. Montgomery
While the others chatted over their parcels Jean wrote her letter, and Jean could write delightful letters. She had a decided talent in that respect, and her correspondents all declared her letters to be things of beauty and joy forever. She -- L.m. Montgomery
A woman who has a sense of humor possesses no refuge from the merciless truth about herself. She cannot think herself misunderstood. She cannot revel in self-pity. She cannot comfortably damn any one who differs from her. -- L.m. Montgomery
The dark is your friend, isn't it? When you turn on the light, it makes the dark your enemy ... and it glowers in at you resentfully. -- L.m. Montgomery
When you know things you have to go by facts. But when you just dream things there's nothing to hold you down. -- L.m. Montgomery
But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it? -- L.m. Montgomery
Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. The most terrible and tremendous saying in the world, Jane ... because we are all afraid of truth and afraid of freedom ... that's why we murdered Jesus. -- L.m. Montgomery
I guess you've got a spice of temper," commented Mr. Harrison, surveying the flushed cheeks and indignant eyes opposite him. "It goes with hair like yours, I reckon -- L.m. Montgomery
Nothing worth while is every easy come by. -- L.m. Montgomery
That white birch you caught me kissing is a sister of mine. The only difference is, she's a tree and I'm a girl, but that's no real difference. -- L.m. Montgomery
That Gilbert of yours is a darling, Anne, -- L.m. Montgomery
How horrible it is that people have to grow up! -- L.m. Montgomery
Anne "felt instinctively" that romance was peeping at her around a corner. -- L.m. Montgomery
Look at that sea, girls
all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds. -- L.m. Montgomery
Bohemian - a respectable sort of tramp. -- L.m. Montgomery
There's always a piece of unfinished work left,' said Mrs. Lynde, with tears in her eyes. 'But I supposed there's always some one to finish it. -- L.m. Montgomery
Lawful heart, did any one ever see such freckles? And hair as red as carrots! -- L.m. Montgomery
When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper ... and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame. -- L.m. Montgomery
But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life
no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that
what it's right to do. -- L.m. Montgomery
Oh, Anne, things are so mixed-up in real life. They aren't clear-cut and trimmed off, as they are in novels. -- L.m. Montgomery
Tears don't hurt like the ache does. -- L.m. Montgomery
It's no wonder we can't understand the grown-ups," said the Story Girl indignantly, "because we've never been grown-up ourselves. But THEY have been children, and I don't see why they can't understand us. -- L.m. Montgomery
I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. ( ... ) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over. -- L.m. Montgomery
leave for Charlottetown to attend Queen's Academy. Their charmed circle would be broken; and, in spite of the jollity of their little festival, there was a hint of sorrow in every gay young heart. -- L.m. Montgomery
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it. -- L.m. Montgomery
I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset ... almost pays for the thud. -- L.m. Montgomery
Leslie turned herself about passionately. -- L.m. Montgomery
I don't like places or people either that haven't any faults. I think that a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting. -- L.m. Montgomery
It was nearly as long as a minister's and so poetical. But -- L.m. Montgomery
Part due to accidental circumstances - the -- L.m. Montgomery
Open brow and his fearless eyes. There were thousands like him all over the land of the maple. Let the Piper -- L.m. Montgomery
It is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time. - Anne Shirley -- L.m. Montgomery
An hour ago on the sand-shore he has been looking at her as if she were the only being of any importance in the world. And now she was a nobody. -- L.m. Montgomery
She isn't like any of the girls I ever knew, or any of the girls I was myself."
"How many girls were you, Aunt Jimsie?"
"About half a dozen, my dear. -- L.m. Montgomery
Note: - One can do a great deal with appropriate smiles. I must study the subject carefully. The friendly smile - the scornful smile - the detached smile - the entreating smile - the common or garden grin. -- L.m. Montgomery
Diana couldn't be improved upon even by imagination. -- L.m. Montgomery
You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible. -- L.m. Montgomery
The happiest countries, like the happiest women, have no history. -- L.m. Montgomery
Oh, Gilbert, don't let's ever grow too old and wise... no, not too old and silly for fairyland. -- L.m. Montgomery
But the trouble is there aren't any bends in my road. I can see it stretching straight out before me to the sky-line ... endless monotony. Oh, does life ever frighten you, Anne, with its blankness ... its swarms of cold, uninteresting people? -- L.m. Montgomery
Nobody is ever too old to dream. And dreams never grow old. -- L.m. Montgomery
Desire grows by what it feeds on. -- L.m. Montgomery
Fancies are like shadows ... you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things. -- L.m. Montgomery
Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while. -- L.m. Montgomery
Some people are naturally good, you know, and others are not. I'm one of the others. -- L.m. Montgomery
There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it? -- L.m. Montgomery
Freedom and independence were all very well, but one should not be a little fool. -- L.m. Montgomery
Don't you know that it is only the very foolish folk who talk sense all the time? (Anne) -- L.m. Montgomery
Seems to me you must always have been afraid to be young. It takes courage, I can tell you that, -- L.m. Montgomery
[She] may be an acquired taste with some folks; but I didn't keep on eating bananas because I was told I'd learn to like them if I did. -- L.m. Montgomery
She has no serious ideals at all-her sole aspiration seems to be to have a good time. -- L.m. Montgomery
I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come. -- L.m. Montgomery
... I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us. -- L.m. Montgomery
I ought to grow up successfully, and I'm sure it will be my own fault if I don't. I feel it's a great responsibility because I have only one chance. If I don't grow up right I can't go back and begin over again. - Anne Shirley -- L.m. Montgomery
Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply. -- L.m. Montgomery
If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up. -L.M. Montgomery -- L.m. Montgomery
She had a way of embroidering life with stars. -- L.m. Montgomery
What is it really like to be engaged?" asked Anne curiously.
"Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to," answered Diana, with that maddening air of superior wisdom always assumed by those who are engaged over those who are not. -- L.m. Montgomery
We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after all, there are no such things as 'wasted' lives, saving and except when am individual wilfully squanders and wastes his own life ... -- L.m. Montgomery
True friends are always together in spirit. (Anne Shirley) -- L.m. Montgomery
APRIL CAME TIPTOEING IN BEAUTIFULLY that year with sunshine and soft winds for a few days; and then a driving northeast snowstorm dropped a white blanket over the world -- L.m. Montgomery
I hope you don't think I'm one of those terrible people who make you feel that you have to talk to them all the time. -- L.m. Montgomery
[Ilse] was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain. -- L.m. Montgomery
Anne of Windy Poplars -- L.m. Montgomery
She brushed the old years and habits and inhibitions away from her like dead leaves. She would not be littered with them. -- L.m. Montgomery
Changes come all the time. Just as soon as things get really nice they change,' she said with a sigh. -- L.m. Montgomery
Oh, I wouldn't have minded its being heretical. I can stand wickedness, but I can't stand foolishness, -- L.m. Montgomery
Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed. -- L.m. Montgomery
If you love me as I love you Nothing but death can part us two. -- L.m. Montgomery
When I don't like the name of a place or a person I always imagine a new one and always think of them so. " Anne of Green Gables -- L.m. Montgomery
Cornelia was rightfully Mrs. Marshall Elliott, and had been Mrs. Marshall Elliott for thirteen years, but even yet more people referred to her as Miss -- L.m. Montgomery
All i want is a dress with puffy sleaves -- L.m. Montgomery
I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school. -- L.m. Montgomery
Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it -- L.m. Montgomery
Was not -- should not -- a "career" be something splendid, wonderful, spectacular at the very least, something varied and exciting? Could my long, uphill struggle, through many quiet, uneventful years, be termed a "career"? -- L.m. Montgomery
I can't understand how she could have wanted to live back here, away from everything," said Jane. "Oh, I can easily understand that," said Anne thoughtfully. "I wouldn't want it myself for a steady thing because, although I love the fields and woods, I love people too ... -- L.m. Montgomery
Aunt Elizabeth," said Katherine one day, "does anybody ever die in Harbour Hill? Because it doesn't seem to me it would be any change for them if they did. -- L.m. Montgomery
I told you the Bible was more to be depended on than newspapers! -- L.m. Montgomery
You'll get so tired of Blair Water - you'll know all the people in it - what they are and can be - it'll be like reading a book for the twentieth time. -- L.m. Montgomery
It is not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't -- L.m. Montgomery
God is in heaven, all's right with the world - Anne Shirley -- L.m. Montgomery
Red hair is my life long sorrow. -- L.m. Montgomery
Freedom!' Mrs. Lynde sniffed. 'Freedom! Don't talk like a Yankee, Anne. -- L.m. Montgomery
Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own. -- L.m. Montgomery
Experience teaches sense. You can't learn it in a college course. -- L.m. Montgomery
Satirize wickedness if you must
but pity weakness. -- L.m. Montgomery
She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness. -- L.m. Montgomery
I believe I've put forth a tiny soul-root into Kingsport soil this afternoon. I hope so. I hate to feel transplanted. -- L.m. Montgomery
She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity. -- L.m. Montgomery
That Rosemary is to wear white silk and a veil, but Ellen is to be married in navy blue. I have no doubt, Mrs. Dr. dear, that that is very sensible of her, -- L.m. Montgomery
I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes. -- L.m. Montgomery
Oh, oh, it's not meself that do be knowing what the girls of today are coming to. Trying to make thimselves into min and not succading very well at that. -- L.m. Montgomery
Well, I don't want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life," declared Anne. "I'm quite content to be Anne of Green Gables, with my string of pearl beads. -- L.m. Montgomery
It would be so much easier to be good if one's hair was handsome auburn, don't you think? -- L.m. Montgomery
It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them. -- L.m. Montgomery
Then Diana puts too many murders into [her stories]. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them. -- L.m. Montgomery
Now, Anne, don't look as if you were trying to understand. Seventeen can't understand. -- L.m. Montgomery
Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time? -- L.m. Montgomery
Ellen and Norman Douglas are warming up the old soup." "Is -- L.m. Montgomery
We are all servants of some sort, and if the fact that we are faithful can be truthfully inscribed on our tombstones, nothing more need be added. -- L.m. Montgomery
Now another illusion has been stripped from my eyes and I feel as if there wasn't such a thing as real true friendship in the world. -- L.m. Montgomery
And be very careful what friends you make. You never know what sort of creatures are in them colleges. Outwardly they may be as whited sepulchers and inwardly as ravening wolves, that's what. -- L.m. Montgomery
As I was when I was getting married myself. I felt exactly like a bride again last evening when I was up on the hill seeing -- L.m. Montgomery
Oh, aren't you glad it is spring? The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring." The -- L.m. Montgomery
Oh, my, you are one of the Chosen People," mocked Black-eyes.
"Of course I am," retorted Emily. -- L.m. Montgomery
Anne laughed.
I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you. -- L.m. Montgomery
It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you. -- L.m. Montgomery
I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant. -- L.m. Montgomery
Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise - which showed how young she was. -- L.m. Montgomery
The thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts. - LONGFELLOW -- L.m. Montgomery
lads who were to fight, and perhaps fall, on the fields of France and Flanders, Gallipoli and Palestine, were still roguish schoolboys with a fair life in prospect before -- L.m. Montgomery
The future is yet an untrodden path full of wonderful possibilities. -- L.m. Montgomery
Remember, there's more than one way to skin a cat. It can be done so that the animal will never know he's lost his hide. -- L.m. Montgomery
I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight. -- L.m. Montgomery
I asked Doss if she had no regard for appearancs. She said, 'I've been keeping up appearances all my life. Now I'm going in for realities. Appearances can go hang! -- L.m. Montgomery
The only thing she really enjoyed was a funeral. You knew where you were with a corpse. Nothing more could happen to it. But while there was life there was fear. -- L.m. Montgomery
I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.] -- L.m. Montgomery
I suppose it was a romantic was to perish ... for a mouse -- L.m. Montgomery
I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again. -- L.m. Montgomery
But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible ... and good? What would we find to talk about? -- L.m. Montgomery
We make our own lives wherever we are, after all ... They are broad or narrow according to what we put into them, not what we get out. -- L.m. Montgomery
The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it? -- L.m. Montgomery
Ancient handmaiden. The door opened directly -- L.m. Montgomery
First came a delightful thrill, as of something very pleasant; then a horrible remembrance. -- L.m. Montgomery
Truth exists, only lies have to be invented. -- L.m. Montgomery
You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. -- L.m. Montgomery
I do not know the difference between them, for the politics of the Yankees is a puzzle I cannot solve, study it as I may. But as far as seeing through a grindstone goes, I am afraid - " Susan shook her head dubiously, "that they are all tarred with the same brush. -- L.m. Montgomery
Whenever he got stuck for an idea, he would bang the Bible and shout very bitterly, 'Curse ye Meroz.' Poor Meroz got thoroughly cursed that day, whoever he was, Mrs. Dr. dear," said Susan. "The -- L.m. Montgomery
I am well in body though considerably rumpled up in spirit. -- L.m. Montgomery
Allan about besetting sins last Sunday -- L.m. Montgomery
Lovely thoughts came flying to meet me like birds. They weren't my thoughts. I couldn't think anything half so exquisite. They came from somewhere. -- L.m. Montgomery
It might be a nice world if nobody ever said a disagreeable thing, but it would be a dangerous one, -- L.m. Montgomery
I'm afraid you both cry and laugh far too easily. Yes, -- L.m. Montgomery
Multiplication is vexation, division is as bad, the rule of three perplexes me and fractions drive me mad!
(the story girl) -- L.m. Montgomery
Make a still bigger fool of himself, if he tried. I -- L.m. Montgomery
Oh, WHY can't boys be just sensible!" Anne -- L.m. Montgomery
Kingsport or feel at home there. Before -- L.m. Montgomery
The dead will only be dead if you stop remembering them. -- L.m. Montgomery
I've come home in love with loneliness -- L.m. Montgomery
I wish I were dead, or that it were tomorrow night,' groaned Phil. -- L.m. Montgomery
I couldn't live where there were no trees
something vital in me would starve. -- L.m. Montgomery
She was an excellent target for teasing because she always took things so seriously. -- L.m. Montgomery
So bright and golden and fair, so free fro shadow and so lavish of blossom. -- L.m. Montgomery
But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'. -- L.m. Montgomery
I love bright red drinks, don't you? They taste twice as good as any other color. -- L.m. Montgomery
Oh, but there's such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it,' wailed Anne. 'You may know a thing is so, but you can't help hoping other people don't quite think it is. -- L.m. Montgomery
Words aren't made - they grow,' said Anne. -- L.m. Montgomery
People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you? -- L.m. Montgomery
And as for the risk, there's risks in pretty near everything a body does in this world. There's risks in people's having children of their own if it comes to that--they don't always turn out well. -- L.m. Montgomery
Oh, it was almost too much to bear! And everything was going on as before - the dancers were spinning around, the boys who couldn't get partners were hanging about the pavilion, canoodling couples were sitting out on the rocks - nobody seemed to realize what a stupendous thing had happened. -- L.m. Montgomery
I will not be poisoned by your bitterness. -- L.m. Montgomery
Soul-ache doesn't worry folks near as much as stomach-ache. -- L.m. Montgomery
Still Anne said nothing, several times over. -- L.m. Montgomery
I thought out a splendid prayer after I went to bed, just -- L.m. Montgomery
Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it. -- L.m. Montgomery
Flour is so essential to cakes, you know. -- L.m. Montgomery
Wilson has some fancy name for it, but
I call lit macanaccady. Anything I can't analyze in the eating
line I call macanaccady and anything wet that puzzles me I call
shallamagouslem. -- L.m. Montgomery
Before them: the girls whose hearts were to be wrung were yet fair little maidens a-star with hopes and dreams. -- L.m. Montgomery
How sympathetic you look, Anne ... as sympathetic as only seventeen can look. -- L.m. Montgomery
Well now, I dunno -- L.m. Montgomery
It's so hard to get up again - although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you? -- L.m. Montgomery
The Reverend John Knox Meredith, Mrs. Dr. dear," said Susan, resolved not to let Miss Cornelia tell all the news. "Is -- L.m. Montgomery
I like a man whose eyes say more than his lips, thought Valancy. -- L.m. Montgomery
One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once. -- L.m. Montgomery
It is always safe to dream of spring. For it is sure to come; and if it be not just as we have pictured it, it will be infinitely sweeter. -- L.m. Montgomery
Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have! -- L.m. Montgomery
Commissariat in her own hands, in spite of all Mary's -- L.m. Montgomery
People who haven't natural gumption never learn," retorted Aunt Jamesina, "neither in college nor life. If they live to be a hundred they really don't know anything more than when they were born. -- L.m. Montgomery
Did she think ginger cookies a substitute for impassioned longings and mad, wild, glamorous adventures? -- L.m. Montgomery
Ain't it strange how innocent little creatures like children like the blood-thirstiest stories? -- L.m. Montgomery
You can never tell about those Yankees! -- L.m. Montgomery
People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't. -- L.m. Montgomery
was my pore boy. -- L.m. Montgomery
It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it? -- L.m. Montgomery
Reformation with men and dogs never goes very deep. -- L.m. Montgomery
Thank goodness air and salvation are still free ... and so is laughter. -- L.m. Montgomery
It was so easy to defy once you got started. The first step was the only one that really counted. -- L.m. Montgomery
Well, in a way she might be right. It might be better if he were married...It all came back to the fact that he was sure nobody would ever understand him as well as he understood himself. -- L.m. Montgomery
That's one splendid thing about such affairs - it's so lovely to look back to them. -- L.m. Montgomery
The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not. -- L.m. Montgomery
Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while. -- L.m. Montgomery
Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth -- L.m. Montgomery
She was an expert in dealing with situations without precedent. -- L.m. Montgomery
I don't care a hang for any cat that hasn't stripes. -- L.m. Montgomery
Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself. -- L.m. Montgomery
And every day in heaven will be more beautiful than the one before it Davy, assured Anne. -- L.m. Montgomery
We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go? -- L.m. Montgomery
This is no common day, Mrs. Dr. dear," she said solemnly.
"Oh, Susan, there is no such thing as a common day. EVERY day has something about it no other day has. Haven't you noticed? -- L.m. Montgomery
Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you. -- L.m. Montgomery
It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other. -- L.m. Montgomery
What is to be, will be," said Mrs. Rachel gloomily, "and what isn't to be happens sometimes. -- L.m. Montgomery
One can always find something lovely to look at or listen to,' said Anne. -- L.m. Montgomery
Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband. -- L.m. Montgomery
It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked. -- L.m. Montgomery
You'll find that trickery of the mind is just as potent as trickery of deed -- L.m. Montgomery
... determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted. -- L.m. Montgomery
Oh, isn't it good to be alive--like this? Wouldn't it be dreadful if one had never lived? -- L.m. Montgomery
I love books. I hope when I grow up to be able to have lots of them. -- L.m. Montgomery
...The white majesty of death had fallen on him and set him apart as one crowned. -- L.m. Montgomery
It's all right to have our mite boxes for the heathen, and send missionaries to them. They're far away and we don't have to associate with them. But I don't want to have to sit in a pew with a hired boy. -- L.m. Montgomery
She was as intense in her hatreds as in her loves. -- L.m. Montgomery
at last tears were all wept out and the little patient ache that was to be in her heart until she died took their place. -- L.m. Montgomery
The world is always young again for just a few moments at the dawn. -- L.m. Montgomery
It does people good to have to do things they don't like ... in moderation. -- L.m. Montgomery
Her eyes astar with dreams -- L.m. Montgomery
To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is! -- L.m. Montgomery
Oh, no, you did not, Mrs. Dr. dear, said loyal Susan, determined to protect Anne from herself. -- L.m. Montgomery
It really was dreadful to be so different from other people... and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were being strayed from another star. -- L.m. Montgomery
But play the game of life according to the rules. You might as well, because you can't cheat life in the end. -- L.m. Montgomery
She could keep her silence, it was evident, as energetically as she could talk. -- L.m. Montgomery
For spring is just around the corner and I have forgotten everything but gladness. -- L.m. Montgomery
You couldn't really expect a person to pray very well the first time she tried, could you? -- L.m. Montgomery
When we have to do a thing...we can do it. -- L.m. Montgomery
It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? -- L.m. Montgomery
There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced. -- L.m. Montgomery
D<>ong>oong>n't let a three-<>ong>oong>'cl<>ong>oong>ck-at-night feeling f<>ong>oong>g y<>ong>oong>ur s<>ong>oong>ul. -- L.m. Montgomery