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[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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
to me in all events
a terrible thing without books. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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
I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. - Lucy Maud Montgomery
— Anonymous
You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
When I make up my mind to do a thing it stays made up.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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
The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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
I believe flowers have souls. I have known roses that I expect to meet in heaven.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
I don't like green Christmases. They're not green - they're just nasty faded browns and grays.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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
An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
A few italics really do relieve your feelings.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
Some nights are like honey - and some like wine - and some like wormwood.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
Nasturtiums, who colored you, you wonderful, glowing things? You must have been fashioned out of summer sunsets.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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
Wouldn't it be nice if roses could talk? I'm sure they could tell us such lovely things.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
That is one good thing about this world ... there are always sure to be more springs.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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
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
I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
Maples are such sociable trees ... They're always rustling and whispering to you.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
If I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
The little things in life often make more trouble than the big things.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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
It doesn't take long to stay an hour.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
I feel as though someone's handed me the moon and I don't exactly know what to do with it.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite - always.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne Shirley. Anne with an e.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
Night is beautiful when you are happy
comforting when you are in grief
terrible when you are lonely and unhappy. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
comforting when you are in grief
terrible when you are lonely and unhappy. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
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
How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view,
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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
Dogs want only love but cats demand worship.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
It's as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery