Lucy Maud Montgomery
He had also the reputation of being a bit of a lady killer. But that probably accrued to him from his possession of a laughing, velvety voice which no girl could hear without a heartbeat, and a dangerous way of listening as if she were saying something that he had longed all his life to hear.Collection: Girl
It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.Collection: Thinking
Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.Collection: Girl
I've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.Collection: Hurt
In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.Collection: Dream
Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne.Collection: Half
Gilbert took from his desk a little pink candy heart with a gold motto on it, “You are sweet,” and slipped it under the curve of Anne’s arm. Whereupon Anne arose, took the pink heart gingerly between the tips of her fingers, dropped it on the floor, ground it to powder beneath her heel, and resumed her position without deigning to bestow a glance on Gilbert.Collection: Sweet
When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.Collection: Passion
No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.Collection: Dog
The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr," remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. "It is the most contented sound in the world.Collection: Cat
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.Collection: Ambition
A girl who would fall in love so easily or want a man to love her so easily would probably get over it just as quickly, very little the worse for wear. On the contrary, a girl who would take love seriously would probably be a good while finding herself in love and would require something beyond mere friendly attentions from a man before she would think of him in that light.Collection: Girl
It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?Collection: Interesting
Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to piecesCollection: Mind
I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.Collection: Sweet
I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.Collection: Flower
Diana: "I wish I were rich, and I could spend the whole summer at a hotel, eating ice cream and chicken salad." Anne: "You know something, Diana? We are rich. We have sixteen years to our credit, and we both have wonderful imaginations. We should be as happy as queens." [gestures to the setting sun] Anne Shirley: "Look at that. You couldn't enjoy its loveliness more if you had ropes of diamonds.Collection: Summer
Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!Collection: Change
You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.Collection: Writing
I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry." - Martin HarrisCollection: Rate
I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.Collection: Beauty
Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.Collection: Luck
It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.Collection: Life
Rilla's heart skipped a beat — or, if that be a physiological impossibility, she thought it did.Collection: Heart