Lucy Maud Montgomery
If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.Collection: Cheerful
There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)Collection: Ordinary
You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.Collection: Expression
Nasturtiums, who colored you, you wonderful, glowing things? You must have been fashioned out of summer sunsets.Collection: Summer
I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.Collection: Victory
You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you.Collection: Growing Up
As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain hidden deep in Emily’s nature—the strain of the gypsy and the poet, the genius and the fool.Collection: Night
she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.Collection: Dream
I've had a splendid time," she concluded happily, "and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.Collection: Home
Perhaps. . .love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.Collection: Beautiful
Nothing mattered much to me for a time there, after you told me you could never love me, Anne. There was nobody else -- there never could be anybody else for me but you. I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.Collection: School
One June evening, when the orchards were pink-blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the Lake of Shining Waters, and the air was full of the savor of clover fields and balsamic fir woods, Anne was sitting by her gable window. She had been studying her lessons, but it had grown too dark to see the book, so she had fallen into wide-eyed reverie, looking out past the boughs of the Snow Queen, once more bestarred with its tufts of blossom.Collection: Sweet
Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it.Collection: Night
I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.Collection: Dog
All that Ruby said was so horribly true, she was leaving everything she cared for. She had laid up her treasures on earth only. She had lived solely for the little things of life, the things that pass, forgetting the great things that go onward into eternity bridging the gulf between the two lives and making of death a mere passing of one dwelling to the other. From twilight to unclouded day. ...it was no wonder her soul clung in blind helplessness to the only things she knew and loved.Collection: Twilight
Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways.Collection: Perhaps Love
An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.Collection: Home
Why, I've never even had a quarrel with any one. I haven't an enemy. What a spineless thing I must be not to have even one enemy!Collection: Enemy
When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding. -Aunt JimsieCollection: Aunt
There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.Collection: Book
Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?Collection: Sunset
We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.Collection: Together
There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won't talk back - unless it is a woman who won't.Collection: Men
Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?Collection: Mean
Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.Collection: Going Out
one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.Collection: Writing
Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.Collection: Reading
All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.Collection: Beautiful
True friends are always together in spirit.Collection: Friendship
A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.Collection: Best Friend
When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.Collection: Love
But I'd rather look like you than be pretty," she told Anne sincerely. Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting.Collection: Looks
How sadly things had changed since she had sat there the night after coming home! Then she had been full of hope and joy and the future had looked rosy with promise. Anne felt as if she had lived years since then, but before she went to bed there was a smile on her lips and peace in her heart. She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend--as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.Collection: Home
She had...the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.Collection: Names
I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.Collection: Thinking
it doesn't take long to stay an hour.Collection: Time
It's as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either.Collection: Generosity
I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.Collection: School
if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.Collection: Acceptance
At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on.Collection: Dream
But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about?Collection: Wise
I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.Collection: Winning
Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.Collection: Weakness
My pen shall heal, not hurt.Collection: Hurt
People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't.Collection: People
Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.Collection: Dream
I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
Before this war is over,' [Walter] said - or something said through his lips - 'every man and woman and child in Canada will feel it - you, Mary, will feel it - feel it to your heart's core. You will weep tears of blood over it. The Piper has come - and he will pipe until every corner of the world has heard his awful and irresistible music. It will be years before the dance of death is over - years, Mary. And in those years millions of hearts will break.Collection: Children