Lucy Maud Montgomery
I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.Collection: People
Despair is a free man--hope is a slave.Collection: Men
A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.Collection: Children
Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.Collection: Dancing
All i want is a dress with puffy sleavesCollection: Dresses
I'm sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood.Collection: Children
Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.Collection: Human Nature
Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!Collection: Dream
It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.Collection: Summer
It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up.Collection: People
Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!" (Anne to Gilbert)Collection: Slavery
Red hair is my life long sorrow.Collection: Hair
There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former understood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation--was reveling in the thoroughness of her abasement. Where was the wholesome punishment upon which she, Marilla, had plumed herself? Anne had turned it into a species of positive pleasure.Collection: Punishment
Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?Collection: Thinking
We belong to the race that knows JosephCollection: Race
People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?Collection: Ideas
Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.Collection: Faith
God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly.Collection: Heaven
After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?Collection: Pigs
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.Collection: Book
I wonder what a soul…a person's soul…would look like,' said Priscilla dreamily. 'Like that, I should think,' answered Anne, pointing to a radiance of sifted sunlight streaming through a birch tree. 'Only with shape and features of course. I like to fancy souls as being made of light. And some are all shot through with rosy stains and quivers…and some have a soft glitter like moonlight on the sea…and some are pale and transparent like mist at dawn.Collection: Thinking
One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.Collection: Girl
It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.Collection: Fashion
Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?Collection: Giving
I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]Collection: Done
Being frightened of things is worse than the things themselves.Collection: Frightened
Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.Collection: Heart
Don't look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can't be sober and serious - everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.Collection: Looks
War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.Collection: War
a few italics really do relieve your feelings.Collection: Feelings
It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.Collection: Inanimate Objects
Death grows friendlier as we grow older.Collection: Grows
But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.Collection: Weather
I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more 'scope for imagination' without them. And as for the waiting, that doesn't matter. We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each other—and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.Collection: Dream
She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.Collection: Faces
The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.Collection: Cat
I am well in body although considerable rumpled up in spirit.Collection: Body
Having adventures comes natural to some people", said Anne serenely. "You just have a gift for them or you haven't.Collection: Adventure
Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.Collection: Wife
most people worry so much, they think you're not right if you don't worry.Collection: Thinking
I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.Collection: Girl
You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.Collection: Safe
What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of criticism. The one essential thing I demand of a book is that it should interest me. If it does, I forgive it every other fault.Collection: Art
Some nights are like honey - and some like wine - and some like wormwood.Collection: Wine
She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.Collection: Felt
That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.Collection: Forgiving
Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.Collection: Love You
Valancy herself had never quite relinquished a certain pitiful, shamed, little hope that Romance would come her way yet - never, until this wet, horrible morning, when she wakened to the fact that she was twenty-nine and unsought by any man. Ay, there lay the sting. Valancy did not mind so much being an old maid. After all, she thought, being an old maid couldn’t possibly be as dreadful as being married to an Uncle Wellignton or an Uncle Benjamin, or even an Uncle Herbert. What hurt her was that she had never had a chance to be anything but an old maid.Collection: Hurt
I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it?Collection: Would Be