Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

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I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself. Thank you, Diana.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your own.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I love bright red drinks, don't you? They taste twice as good as any other color.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
To love is easy and therefore common — but to understand — how rare it is!

Lucy Maud Montgomery
There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I wish I were dead, or that it were tomorrow night,' groaned Phil.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper...and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne's horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming home from Queen's; but if the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joys of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams. And there was always the bend in the road!

Lucy Maud Montgomery
It's fun to be almost grown up in some ways, but it's not the kind of fun I expected, Marilla. There's so much to learn and do and think that there isn't time for big words.

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

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

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

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

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
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
Wouldn't it be nice if roses could talk? I'm sure they could tell us such lovely things.

Lucy Maud Montgomery