Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

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The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them.

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
Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed... perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either... they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't 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
Don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away.

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Few women are so beautiful and charming that they can afford to divest themselves of any portion of their charm; so they are very foolish to do so by smoking. It doesn't matter about men. Men look ugly and silly, too, when smoking. But it isn't beauty that matters with them-only strength

Lucy Maud Montgomery