L.m. Montgomery Quotes

If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.

~ L.m. Montgomery

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

~ L.m. Montgomery

He watched over word and thought and deed as jealously as if her clear eyes were to pass judgement on it... She held over him the unconscious influence that every girl, whose ideals are high and pure, wields over her friends; an influence that would endure as long as she was faithful to those ideals and which she would certainly lose if she were ever false to them.

~ L.m. Montgomery

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

~ L.m. Montgomery

Once upon a time--which, when you come to think of it, is reallythe only proper way to begin a story--the only way that reallysmacks of romance and fairyland--

~ L.m. Montgomery

I don’t want to talk as much,’ she said, denting her chin thoughtfully with her forefinger. ‘It’s nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one’s heart, like treasures.

~ L.m. Montgomery

She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.

~ L.m. Montgomery

The eastern sky above the firs was flushed faintly pink from the reflection of the west, and Anne was wondering dreamily if the spirit of color looked like that…

~ L.m. Montgomery

I ought to grow up successfully, and I'm sure it will be my own fault if I don't. I feel it's a great responsibility because I have only one chance. If I don't grow up right I can't go back and begin over again.

~ L.m. Montgomery

There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I am such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.

~ L.m. Montgomery

[Ilse] was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain.

~ L.m. Montgomery

Well, hope for your thrilling career - but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay the piper in the coin of suffering. If not you - then someone else.

~ L.m. Montgomery

Desire grows by what it feeds on.

~ L.m. Montgomery

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

~ L.m. Montgomery

I hardly dare believe it after that horrible day last summer. I have had a heart ache ever since then. But it is gone now.”“This baby will take Joy’s place.” Said Marilla.“Oh, no no no Marilla. He can’t, nothing can ever do that. He has his own place, my dear wee man child. But little Joy has hers, and always will have it.

~ L.m. Montgomery

She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.

~ L.m. Montgomery

We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?

~ L.m. Montgomery

It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.

~ L.m. Montgomery

Fear is the original sin,” suddenly said a still, small voice away back—back—back of Valancy’s consciousness. “Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.”Valancy stood up. She was still in the clutches of fear, but her soul was her own again. She would not be false to that inner voice.

~ L.m. Montgomery

She was always at her best with him, with a delightful feeling of being understood. To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!

~ L.m. Montgomery

To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!

~ L.m. Montgomery

Look, do you see that poem?' she said suddenly, pointing.

~ L.m. Montgomery

Steal not this book for fear of shameFor on it is the owners nameAnd when you die the Lord will sayWhere is the book you stole awayAnd when you say you do not knowThe Lord will say go down below.

~ L.m. Montgomery

Since ever the world was spinningAnd till the world shall endYou've your man in the beginningOr you have him in the end,But to have him from start to finishAnd neither nor borrow nor lendIs what all of the girls are wantingAnd none of the gods can send

~ L.m. Montgomery

Never on painter's canvas livesThe charm of his fancy's dream.

~ L.m. Montgomery

If you buy your experience it's your own. So it's no matter how much you pay for it.

~ L.m. Montgomery

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

~ L.m. Montgomery

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

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.

~ L.m. Montgomery

We always hate people who surprise our secrets…

~ L.m. Montgomery

Why should one hate you when you were so small? Could you be worth hating?

~ L.m. Montgomery

…hate's got to be a disease with me.

~ L.m. Montgomery

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

~ L.m. Montgomery

More than ever at that instant did she long for speech - speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray.

~ L.m. Montgomery

Heaven must be very beautiful, of course, the Bible says so — but, Anne, it won't be what I've been used to.

~ L.m. Montgomery

She isn't like any of the girls I ever knew, or any of the girls I was myself.

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When I don't like the name of a place or a person I always imagine a new one and always think of them so. Anne of Green Gables

~ L.m. Montgomery

…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

Some people are naturally good, you know, and others are not. I'm one of the others.

~ L.m. Montgomery

I wonder if it will be—can be—any more beautiful than this,’ murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptured eyes of those to whom ‘home’ must always be the loveliest spot in the world, no matter what fairer lands may lie under alien stars.

~ L.m. Montgomery