Lucy Maud Montgomery
You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.Collection: Exclamation Points
I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn't be I — as if I must have changed into somebody else and couldn't get used to it. It gives me a horrible lonely, dazed, helpless feeling. It's good to see you again — it seems as if you were a sort of anchor for my drifting soul.Collection: Lonely
I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.Collection: Summer
But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.Collection: Long Ago
There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a comforting thoughtCollection: Mistake
Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?Collection: Foolish
I am sure we should not shut our hearts against the healing influences that nature offers us. But I understand your feeling. I think we all experience the same thing. We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us.Collection: Healing
there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.Collection: People
A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.Collection: Book
it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshineCollection: Sleep
The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.Collection: Sea
The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here and there the dark pointed firs stood up with snow powdering their branches and the wind whistling through them.Collection: Stars
It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.Collection: People
Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.Collection: Stubborn
A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.Collection: Prayer
Everything that's worth having is some trouble.Collection: Trouble
The woods are never solitary — they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity. We can never pierce its infinite mystery — we may only wander, awed and spellbound, on the outer fringe of it. The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice.Collection: Sea
let's not borrow trouble. The rate of interest is too high.Collection: Trouble
I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.Collection: Believe
Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.Collection: Love
It was November--the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland alleys in the park and, as she said, let that great sweeping wind blow the fogs out of her soul.Collection: Song
To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!Collection: Love Is
Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.Collection: Uncertain
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.Collection: Cat
It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that 'this, too, will pass away.Collection: Laughing
…the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all modes and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquillity unbroken by fickle dreams.Collection: Summer
Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.Collection: Two
She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.Collection: Thinking
She had a way of embroidering life with stars.Collection: Stars
Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.Collection: Lovely
I must get out all my ambitions and dust them.Collection: Ambition
It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.Collection: Worry
To dispair is to turn your back on God.Collection: Turns
It's great to be great, but it's great to be human.Collection: Humans
I know that in everybody's life must come days of depression and discouragement when all things in life seem to lose savour. The sunniest day has its clouds;but one must not forget the sun is there all the time.Collection: Depression
It has always seemed to me. ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, i was very near to a kingdom of ideal beauty. Between it and me hung only a thin veil. I could never draw it quite aside, but sometimes a wind fluttered it and I caught a glimpse of the enchanting realms beyond-only a glimpse-but those glimpses have always made life worthwhile.Collection: Wind
You were never poor as long as you had something to love.Collection: Long
Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.Collection: Life
It was October again ... a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the valleys were filled with delicate mists as if the spirit of autumn had poured them in for the sun to drain - amethyst, pearl, silver, rose, and smoke-blue. The dews were so heavy that the fields glistened like cloth of silver and there were such heaps of rustling leaves in the hollows of many-stemmed woods to run crisply through.Collection: Running
Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.Collection: Thinking
The trouble with you people is that you don't laugh enough.Collection: People
Thank goodness air and salvation are still free...and so is laughter.Collection: Laughter
I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.Collection: Giving
We ought always to try to influence others for good.Collection: Trying
Saying one's prayers isn't exactly the same thing as praying.Collection: Prayer
Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.Collection: Girl
Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.Collection: Might
It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.Collection: Life
I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.Collection: Tree