Lucy Maud Montgomery - Emily of New Moon (1923)

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

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

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

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

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

Lucy Maud Montgomery
If it's IN you to climb you must — there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills — they can't breathe properly in the valleys.

Lucy Maud Montgomery