L.M. Montgomery Quotes
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L.M. Montgomery Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.
Marilla, what if I fail!'
'You'll hardly fail completely in one day and there's plenty more days coming,' said Marilla.
'You'll hardly fail completely in one day and there's plenty more days coming,' said Marilla.
War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.
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.
Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story ... Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)
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.
She had ... the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.
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.
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.
Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.
Anyone who has sympathy and understanding to give has a treasure that is without money and without price.
I am afraid to speak or move for the fear all this wonderful beauty will vanish just like a broken silence
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
... it's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness ...
Some are born old maids, some achieve old maidenhood, and some have old maidenhood thrust upon them , parodied Miss Lavendar whimsically.
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.
She never said anything that would hurt anyone's feelings - which may be a negative talent but is likewise a rare and enviable one.
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.
And then - thwack! - Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head and cracked it - slate not head - clear across.
It's the homiest spot I ever saw-it's homier than home avowed Philippa Gorden, looking about her with delighted eyes.
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.
I heard someone once say that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.
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.
I feel sorry now myself," admitted Davy, "but the trouble is I never feel sorry for doing things till after I've did them.
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.
People say men are interesting. They may be. But I shall never get well enough acquainted with any of them to find out.
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
Clouds of the golden west between its softly dark shores. The sea moaned eerily on the sand-bar, sorrowful even in spring, but a
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.
To be obliged to sit still when mental agony urges us to stride up and down is the refinement of torture. Every
It is not," Valency could hear her mother's prim, dictatorial voice asserting, "it is not MAIDENLY to think about MEN.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!
Oh, Anne, things are so mixed-up in real life. They aren't clear-cut and trimmed off, as they are in novels.