Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

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But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my dreams have that I mustn't complain. Am I all ready now?

Lucy Maud Montgomery
That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them, exclaimed Anne. You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed....

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I couldn't live where there were no trees—something vital in me would starve.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Rilla's heart skipped a beat - or, if that be a pysiological impossibility, she thought it did.

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I am sure we should not shut our hearts against the healing influences that nature offers us. But I understand your feeling. I think we all experience the same thing. We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us.

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
Some nights are like honey — and some like wine — and some like wormwood.

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There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own; but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.

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What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.

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I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment…

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Be the day short or be the day long, at last it weareth to evening song.

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Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expect a kiss.

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The woods are never solitary—they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity.

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I've done my best, and I begin to see what is meant by the 'joy of the strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

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March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.

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
There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a comforting thought

Lucy Maud Montgomery
A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.

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There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.

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When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud. But really, Marilla, the flying part is glorious as long as it lasts... it's like soaring through a sunset. I think it almost pays for the thud.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful…

Lucy Maud Montgomery
You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I don't like green Christmases. They're not green—they're just nasty faded browns and grays.

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I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.

Lucy Maud Montgomery