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Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: [O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.

[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be to me in all events a terrible thing without books.

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be
to me in all events
a terrible thing without books.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: One reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.

One reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.

I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.

You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.

Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: When I make up my mind to do a thing it stays made up.

When I make up my mind to do a thing it stays made up.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.

I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.

The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.

What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.

A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: I believe flowers have souls. I have known roses that I expect to meet in heaven.

I believe flowers have souls. I have known roses that I expect to meet in heaven.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: I don't like green Christmases. They're not green - they're just nasty faded browns and grays.

I don't like green Christmases. They're not green - they're just nasty faded browns and grays.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: 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.

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.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.

An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: A few italics really do relieve your feelings.

A few italics really do relieve your feelings.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.

There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: Some nights are like honey - and some like wine - and some like wormwood.

Some nights are like honey - and some like wine - and some like wormwood.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: Nasturtiums, who colored you, you wonderful, glowing things? You must have been fashioned out of summer sunsets.

Nasturtiums, who colored you, you wonderful, glowing things? You must have been fashioned out of summer sunsets.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.

No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.

Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?

Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.

Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view,

How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view,

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.

When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: Wouldn't it be nice if roses could talk? I'm sure they could tell us such lovely things.

Wouldn't it be nice if roses could talk? I'm sure they could tell us such lovely things.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.

A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: That is one good thing about this world ... there are always sure to be more springs.

That is one good thing about this world ... there are always sure to be more springs.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: The little things in life often make more trouble than the big things.

The little things in life often make more trouble than the big things.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment ...

I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment ...

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: Maples are such sociable trees ... They're always rustling and whispering to you.

Maples are such sociable trees ... They're always rustling and whispering to you.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: If I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.

If I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.

Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.

I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: It doesn't take long to stay an hour.

It doesn't take long to stay an hour.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: I feel as though someone's handed me the moon and I don't exactly know what to do with it.

I feel as though someone's handed me the moon and I don't exactly know what to do with it.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite - always.

When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite - always.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: Anne Shirley. Anne with an e.

Anne Shirley. Anne with an e.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?

It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.

I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: Night is beautiful when you are happycomforting when you are in griefterrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

Night is beautiful when you are happy
comforting when you are in grief
terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: It is a strange thing to read a letter after the writer is dead - a bitter-sweet thing, in which pain and comfort are strangely mingled.

It is a strange thing to read a letter after the writer is dead - a bitter-sweet thing, in which pain and comfort are strangely mingled.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: It's as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either ...

It's as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either ...

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.

Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: Dogs want only love but cats demand worship.

Dogs want only love but cats demand worship.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry.

It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.

It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest ...

Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest ...

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.

Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.

Lucy Maud Montgomery quotes: I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.

I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.