Lucy Maud Montgomery
I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouseCollection: Mice
Make them do as you want them to," she said. "I can’t," mourned Anne. "Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again.Collection: Writing
Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths.Collection: Loyalty
It was in the spring that Josephine and I had first loved each other, or, at least, had first come into the full knowledge that we loved. I think that we must have loved each other all our lives, and that each succeeding spring was a word in the revelation of that love, not to be understood until, in the fullness of time, the whole sentence was written out in that most beautiful of all beautiful springs.Collection: Beautiful
I'm afraid to speak or move for fear that all this wonderful beauty will just vanish... like a broken silence.Collection: Moving
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.Collection: Writing
Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.Collection: Fear
Rebellion flamed up in her soul as the dark hours passed by – not because she had no future but because she had no past.Collection: Dark
Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.Collection: Fashion
I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence something to thank God for. I suppose our 'blues' are the price we have to pay for our temperament. 'The gods don't allow us to be in their debt.' They give us sensitiveness to beauty in all its forms but the shadow of the gift goes with it.Collection: Beautiful
If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet.Collection: Kissing
Look, do you see that poem?' she said suddenly, pointing.Collection: Looks
For there is no bond more lasting than that formed by the mutual confidences of that magic time when youth is slipping from the sheath of childhood and beginning to wonder what lies for it beyond those misty hills that bound the golden road.Collection: Lying
brains last, beauty doesn't.Collection: Brain
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 know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?But am I talking too much? People are always telling me I do. Would you rather I didn't talk? If you say so I'll stop. I can STOP when I make up my mind to it, although it's difficult.Collection: Thinking
I feel as though someone's handed me the moon... and I don't exactly know what to do with it.Collection: Moon
I'm just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking.Collection: Beautiful
She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.Collection: Atmosphere
That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.Collection: Poverty
Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.Collection: People
That's all the freedom we canhope for - the freedom to choose our prison. [...]Collection: Prison
I've come home in love with lonelinessCollection: Loneliness
Love you! Girl, you're in the very core of my heart. I hold you there like a jewel. Didn't I promise you I'd never tell you a lie? Love you! I love you with all there is of me to love. Heart, soul, brain. Every fibre of body and spirit thrilling to the sweetness of you. There's nobody in the world for me but you, Valancy.Collection: Girl
Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.Collection: Unafraid
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.Collection: Thinking
We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after all, there are no such things as 'wasted' lives, saving and except when am individual wilfully squanders and wastes his own life.Collection: Running
Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?Collection: Endure
There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm 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.Collection: Thinking
Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world can’t make up for the lack of it. ~Aunt Josephine to Anne in Anne Of Green GablesCollection: Girl
Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.Collection: Inspirational
It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?Collection: Nice
If any person wants to see clearly just how much she has changed - whether for better or worse - let her revisit after some lapse of time any place where she has ones lived. She will meet her former self at every turn, with every familiar face, in every old recollection ... She will see how much she has gained in some respects, how much she has lost - irretrievably lost - in others.Collection: Self
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.Collection: Thinking
There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own; but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain.Collection: People
Few women are so beautiful and charming that they can afford to divest themselves of any portion of their charm; so they are very foolish to do so by smoking. It doesn't matter about men. Men look ugly and silly, too, when smoking. But it isn't beauty that matters with them-only strengthCollection: Beautiful
Anyhow, there'll be plenty of jam in heaven, that's one comfort, he said complacently. Perhaps there will...if we want it, she said, But what makes you think so? Why, it's in the catechism, said Davy. Oh, no, there is nothing like that in the catechism, Davy. But I tell you there is, persisted Davy. It was in that question Marilla taught me last Sunday. Why should we love God? It says, Because he makes preserves, and redeems us. Preserves is just a holy way of saying jam.Collection: Sunday
All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.Collection: Life Lesson
I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.Collection: Ideas
…there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets.Collection: Secret
Isn't it terrible the way some unworthy folks are loved, while others that deserve it far more, you'd think, never get much affection?Collection: Thinking
In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and youCollection: Sleep
It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.Collection: Funeral
I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.Collection: Heaven
I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.Collection: Fall
You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets.Collection: Smell
I love bright red drinks, don’t you? They taste twice as good as any other color.Collection: Color
Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.Collection: Silence
But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my dreams have that I mustn't complain. Am I all ready now?Collection: Dream
"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.".Collection: Fun