Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

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People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.

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
Since ever the world was spinning And till the world shall end You've your man in the beginning Or you have him in the end, But to have him from start to finish And neither nor borrow nor lend Is what all of the girls are wanting And none of the gods can send

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Have you ever noticed that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?

Lucy Maud Montgomery
We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it…

Lucy Maud Montgomery
The world is always young again for just a few moments at the dawn.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Doctor Dave hasn't much tact, to be sure — he was always talking of ropes in houses where someone had hanged himself.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?

Lucy Maud Montgomery
The sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
For there is no bond more lasting than that formed by the mutual confidences of that magic time when youth is slipping from the sheath of childhood and beginning to wonder what lies for it beyond those misty hills that bound the golden road.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn't mean to be wicked. It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

Lucy Maud Montgomery
That's one splendid thing about such affairs — it's so lovely to look back to them.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla. 'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's is like a red, red rose. Jane's is an apple blossom, pink and wholesome and sweet.' 'And our own is a white violet, with purple streaks in its heart,' finished Priscilla.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Most people worry so much, they think you're not right if you don't worry.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
There was no mistaking her sincerity—it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former understood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation—was reveling in the thoroughness of her abasement. Where was the wholesome punishment upon which she, Marilla, had plumed herself? Anne had turned it into a species of positive pleasure.

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Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not yet done with dreams and laughter and the joy of life; there were to be future summers for the little stone house; meanwhile, it could wait. And over the river in purple durance the echoes bided their time.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Besides, I've been feeling a little blue — just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
When he could not understand a thing he straight way condemned it. Simplicity itself!

Lucy Maud Montgomery
There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Isn't it queer that the things we writhe over at night are seldom wicked things? Just humiliating ones.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves—so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all modes and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquillity unbroken by fickle dreams.

Lucy Maud Montgomery