L.M. Montgomery

Quotes

• “Anne looked at the white young mother with a certain awe that had never entered into her feelings for Diana before. Coul...”
• “He watched over word and thought and deed as jealously as if her clear eyes were to pass judgement on it... She held ove...”
• “Anne reveled in the world of color about her."Oh, Marilla," she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming dancing in with h...”
• “The dark hills, with the darker spruces marching over them, looked grim on early falling nights, but Ingleside bloomed w...”
• “I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence...”
• “All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a ri...”
• “Fear is the original sin,” suddenly said a still, small voice away back—back—back of Valancy’s consciousness. “Almost al...”
• “I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn't be I — as...”
• “In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost At...”
• “We _are_ rich,' said Anne staunchly. 'Why, we have sixteen years to our credit, and we are as happy as queens and we've ...”
• “If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet,' said Priscilla.Anne glowed.'I'm so glad you spoke that tho...”
• “I hear the Wind Woman running with soft, soft footsteps over the hill. I shall always think of the wind as a personality...”
• “Ilse and I hunted all over the old orchard today for a four-leaved clover and couldn't find one. Then I found one in a c...”
• “But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely d...”
• “Oh, as Dean says, nobody is free - never, except just for a few brief moments now and then, when the flash comes, or whe...”
• “I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla.'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, '...”
• “But the summer had been a very happy one, too -- a time of glad living with summer suns and skies, a time of keen deligh...”
• “The Piper is coming nearer," he said, "he is nearer than he was that evening I saw him before. His long, shadowy cloak i...”
• “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 ...”
• “She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present moo...”
• “I think it is because I have a habit, when I am bored or disgusted with people of stepping suddenly into my own world an...”
• “After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very ...”
• “I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial...”
• “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...”
• “I can't understand how she could have wanted to live back here, away from everything," said Jane. "Oh, I can easily unde...”
• “Mrs Allan says that whenever we think of anything that is a trial to use we should also think of something nice that we ...”
• “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 gathe...”
• “Folks say I've never been quite right since - but they only say that because I'm a poet, and because nothing ever worrie...”
• “Ithink we all experience the same thing. We resent thethought that anything can please us when someone we loveis no long...”
• “Then the immortal heart of the woods will beat against ours and its subtle life will steal into our veins and make us it...”
• “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...”
• “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 ...”
• “There is no such thing as freedom on earth," he said. "Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU t...”
• “I wonder if it will be—can be—any more beautiful than this,’ murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptur...”
• “Since ever the world was spinningAnd till the world shall endYou've your man in the beginningOr you have him in the end,...”
• “It has been a Prosy day for us, but for some people it has been a wonderful day. Someone was rapturously happy in it. Pe...”
• “She told herself that she longed greatly to go back to those dear merry days when life was seen through a rosy mist of h...”
• “Cousin Jimmy thinks I did perfectly right. Cousin Jimmy would think I had done perfectly right if I had murdered Andrew ...”
• “She wondered if old dreams could haunt rooms - if, when one left forever the room where she had joyed and suffered and l...”
• “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 ...”
• “We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word; and I hope it ...”
• “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 some...”
• “I never fancied cats much till I found the First Mate," he remarked, to the accompaniment of the Mate's tremendous purrs...”
• “Love! What a searing, torturing, intolerably sweet thing it was - this possession of body, soul and mind! With something...”
• “Our library isn't very extensive," said Anne, "but every book in it is a friend. We've picked our books up through the y...”
• “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...”
• “I think this story-writing business is the foolishest yet," scoffed Marilla. "You'll get a pack of nonsense into your he...”
• “I have got acquainted with Lofty John. Ilse is a great friend of his and often goes there to watch him working in his ca...”
• “Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then,...”
• “We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, ...”