L.M. Montgomery Quote #1
...“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.”...
L.M. Montgomery Quote #2
...a little appreciation sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious bringing up in the world.
L.M. Montgomery Quote #3
...And every day in heaven will be more beautiful than the one before it Davy, assured Anne.
L.M. Montgomery Quote #4
...Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?
L.M. Montgomery Quote #5
...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.
L.M. Montgomery Quote #6
[...] I grew up out of that strange, dreamy childhood of mine and went into the world of reality. I met with experiences that bruised my spirit - but they never harmed my ideal world. That was always mine to retreat into at will. I learned that that world and the real world clashed hopelessly and irreconcilably; and I learned to keep them apart so that the former might remain for me unspoiled. I learned to meet other people on their own ground since there seemed to be no meeting place on mine. I learned to hide the thoughts and dreams and fancies that had no place in the strife and clash of the market place. I found that it was useless to look for kindred souls in the multitude; one might stumble on such here and there, but as a rule it seemed to me that the majority of people lived for the things of time and sense alone and could not understand my other life. So I piped and danced to other people's piping - and held fast to my own soul as best I could.
L.M. Montgomery Quote #7
[Ilse] was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain.
L.M. Montgomery Quote #8
[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.
L.M. Montgomery Quote #9
[speaking of a friend named Lavendar Lewis] 'I think her parents gave her the only right and fitting name that could possibly be given her,' said Anne. 'If they had been so blind as to name her Elizabeth or Nellie or Muriel she must have been called Lavendar just the same, I think. It's so suggestive of sweetness and old-fashioned graces and silk attire. Now, my name just smacks of bread and butter, patchwork and chores.'
'Oh, I don't think so,' said Diana. 'Anne seems to me real stately and like a queen. But I'd like Kerenhappuch if it happened to be your name. I think people make their names nice or ugly just by what they are themselves. I can't bear Josie or Gertie for names now but before I knew the Pye girls I thought them real pretty.'
'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.L.M. Montgomery Quote #10
…and he wasn't reconciled to dying. Dora told him he was going to a better world. Mebbe, mebbe, says poor Ben, but I'm sorter used to the imperfections of this one.
L.M. Montgomery Quote #11
…but youth yearned to youth.
L.M. Montgomery Quote #12
…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.
L.M. Montgomery Quote #13
…hate's got to be a disease with me.
L.M. Montgomery Quote #14
…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.
L.M. Montgomery Quote #15
…I'm sorry, and a little dissatisfied as well. Miss Stacy told me long ago that by the time I was twenty my character would be formed, for good or evil. I don't feel that it's what it should be. It's full of flaws.' 'So's everybody's,' said Aunt Jamesina cheerfully. 'Mine's cracked in a hundred places. Your Miss Stacy likely meant that when you are twenty your character would have got its permanent bent in one direction or 'tother, and would go on developing in that line.
L.M. Montgomery Quote #16
…there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets.
L.M. Montgomery Quote #17
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.
L.M. Montgomery Quote #18
A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing...
L.M. Montgomery Quote #19
A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter.
L.M. Montgomery Quote #20
A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.
L.M. Montgomery Quote #21
A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself.
L.M. Montgomery Quote #22
A woman cannot ever be sure of not being married till she is buried, Mrs. Doctor, dear, and meanwhile I will make a batch of cherry pies.
L.M. Montgomery Quote #23
A woman who has a sense of humor possesses no refuge from the merciless truth about herself. She cannot think herself misunderstood. She cannot revel in self-pity. She cannot comfortably damn any one who differs from her.
L.M. Montgomery Quote #24
A woman with a sense of humor is never vain. (...) A woman who has a sense of humor possesses no refuge from the merciless truth about herself. She cannot think herself misunderstood. She cannot revel in self-pity. She cannot comfortably damn any one who differs from her.
L.M. Montgomery Quote #25
After all, Anne had said to Marilla once, I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.
L.M. Montgomery Quote #26
After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?
L.M. Montgomery Quote #27
And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.
L.M. Montgomery Quote #28
And there was always the bend in the road!
L.M. Montgomery Quote #29
Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.
L.M. Montgomery Quote #30
Anne laughed.
I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you.
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