Lucy Maud Montgomery - Book Quotes

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I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes. That's a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it over to comfort myself whenever I'm disappointed in anything.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…

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

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery