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I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency. — Maud Newton

What would life be like without her writing? Writing filled her life with beauty and mystery, gave it life ... and promise. — Maud Hart Lovelace

[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

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

Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect. — Maud Hart Lovelace

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

In the struggle for female equality, Maud reflected, sometimes you had to fight women as well as men. — Ken Follett

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

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

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

We have to build our lives out of what materials we have. It's as though we were given a heap of blocks and told to build a house. — Maud Hart Lovelace

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

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again. — Maud Hart Lovelace

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

We're growing up and I don't like it, said Tacy, as they say at Heinz's later, drinking coffee. — Maud Hart Lovelace

Once I found a mouse under my bed in an apartment in Paris. I am terrified of mice! I couldn't sleep for days. — Maud Welzen

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

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

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you, Maud thought. — Ken Follett

It was like somebody had sprinkled fairy dust on the whole city," said Cheryl Bertelli, one of Maud's delirious patrons. — David Talbot

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

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

The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright. — Maud Hart Lovelace

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

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

I was born with a reading list I will never finish. — Maud Casey

I'm finished with something, but I'm not beginning anything. That's wrong. When you finish something, you ought always to begin something new. — Maud Hart Lovelace

Keep thou an open door between thy child's life and thine own. — Maud Lindsay

I cannot remember back to a year in which I did not consider myself to be a writer, and the younger I was the bigger that capital 'W. — Maud Hart Lovelace

They soon stopped being ten years old. But whatever age they were seemed to be exactly the right age for having fun. — Maud Hart Lovelace

One strain could call up the quivering expectancy of Christmas Eve, childhood, joy and sadness, the lonely wonder of a star — Maud Hart Lovelace

It looks like something out of Whittier's "Snowbound,"' Julia said. Julia could always think of things like that to say. — Maud Hart Lovelace

There's love, sweet love, for one and all
For love is best for great and small. — Maud Lindsay

All scholars are a bit mad. All obsessions are dangerous. — A.S. Byatt

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

We'll just have to find more flowers in the spring. That's when they bloom, tra la. — Maud Hart Lovelace

And then we'll go to Tiffany's and get you a ring. And then
" he turned swiftly to look into her fade
" when can we get married? — Maud Hart Lovelace

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

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

Let the child feel Christ is near him; By your faith will grow his own; Death nor danger will affright him If he never feels alone. — Maud Lindsay

They are all doing their best; even when they are not, they wish they were, and that is worth something too. — Maud Casey

Oh! like a wreath, let Christmas mirth To-day encircle all the earth, And bind the nations with the love That Jesus brought from heaven above. — Maud Lindsay

Opposite Lennart and Maud lives Alf. He drives a taxi and always wears a leather jacket under a layer of irascibility. — Fredrik Backman

Greatness is not always largeness. — Maud Lindsay

Julia was as happy as Betsy was, almost. One nice thing about Julia was that she rejoiced in other people's luck. — Maud Hart Lovelace

Love is a bridge that links us heart to heart Mother and child can never live apart. — Maud Lindsay

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

We have so many ideas about things we have never tried. — Maud Younger

Carney was hatless and gloveless, wearing her pink linen. Sam looked at her more than once.
"its just because he likes pink," she told herself. — Maud Hart Lovelace

I like to read dramatic novels and I absolutely love magazines. — Maud Welzen

Anne Shirley. Anne with an e. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

New things are easier to do than old familiar things when there's going to be a change, Betsy decided profoundly. — Maud Hart Lovelace

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

It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside. — Maud Hart Lovelace

Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to be? — Maud Hart Lovelace

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

A house with nothing old in it seems - unseasoned. — Maud Hart Lovelace

You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up. — Maud Hart Lovelace

It is probable that the lemon is the most valuable of all fruit for preserving health. — Maud Grieve

Nobody follows me where I go, Over the mountains or valleys below; Nobody sees where the wild winds blow, Only the Father in Heaven can know. — Maud Lindsay

Beauty is an answer to anguish... — Maud Casey

All the world is happy when Santa Claus comes. — Maud Lindsay

I like Sultana cookies - they are so, so, so good. I think the best in the world. — Maud Welzen

You do not beg the sun for mercy.
-Maud'dib's Travail from The Stilgar Commentary — Frank Herbert

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

Merrily, merrily, listen to me, Flitting and flying from tree to tree. Nothing fear I, by land or sea, For God in Heaven is watching me. — Maud Lindsay

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

Muster your wits: stand in your own defense. — Maud Hart Lovelace

It doesn't take long to stay an hour. — 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

Paul Newman is a sex symbol. — Maud Adams

I was born with a reading list that never ends. — Maud Casey

I like to eat yogurt in the morning. It's easy and quick and available anywhere. — Maud Welzen

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

Ah Maud, you milk-white fawn, you are all unmeet for a wife. — Alfred Tennyson

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

Modeling is a great beginning, but it's also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated. — Maud Adams

Dogs want only love but cats demand worship. — 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

Mr. Yeats makes great poetry out of what he calls his unhappiness about me, and he is happy in that. - Maud Gonne — Orna Ross

The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance. — Maud Hart Lovelace

Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang. — Derrick Jensen

Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe. — Maud Hart Lovelace

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

Say, you told me you thought Les Miserables was the greatest novel ever written. I think Vanity Fair is the greatest. Let's fight. - Joe Willard — Maud Hart Lovelace

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

And so you see it is love- not scorn,not malice; only love- that makes me harm her, in the end. — Sarah Waters

Night is beautiful when you are happy
comforting when you are in grief
terrible when you are lonely and unhappy. — Lucy Maud Montgomery