Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

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There's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again — there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no new book can ever have — for at every reading the memories and atmosphere of other readings come back and I am reading old years as well as an old book.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

Lucy Maud Montgomery
It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Nasturtiums, who colored you, you wonderful, glowing things? You must have been fashioned out of summer sunsets.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I have a dream," he said slowly. "I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends — and YOU!

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea," said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. "And asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life—no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that—what it's right to do.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
You're never safe from being surprised till you're dead.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
What is it really like to be engaged?" asked Anne curiously. "Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to," answered Diana, with that maddening air of superior wisdom always assumed by those who are engaged over those who are not.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches had hurt her in her own sorrow and was afraid.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Don't try to write anything you can't feel — it will be a failure.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Rebellion flamed up in her soul as the dark hours passed by – not because she had no future but because she had no past.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
It was really dreadful to be so different from other people…and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I remembered Elizabeth had never laughed once during our talk. I feel that she hasn't learned how. The great house is so still and lonely and laughterless. It looks dull and gloomy even now when the world is a riot of autumn color. Little Elizabeth is doing too much listening to lost whispers.

Lucy Maud Montgomery