Lucy Maud Montgomery
That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.Collection: Real
Comedy and tragedy are so mixed up in life, Gilbert. The only thing that haunts me is that tale of the two who lived together fifty years and hated each other all that time. I can't believe they really did. Somebody has said that 'hate is only love that has missed its way.' I feel sure that under the hatred they really loved each other . . . just as I really loved you all those years I thought I hated you . . . and I think death would show it to them. I'm glad I found out in life.Collection: Hate
Heaven grant me patience! Clothes are very important," said Anne severelyCollection: Clothes
Anne, are you killed?' shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. 'Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed.Collection: Knees
It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen ... wonderful things.Collection: Beautiful
Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.Collection: Heart
I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.Collection: Heart
Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.Collection: Friendship
And he wrote, "When the moon rises tonight think of me and I'll think of you.Collection: Moon
Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?Collection: Healthy
Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.Collection: Heart
It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?Collection: Satisfaction
I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial.Collection: Two
When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.Collection: Cat
…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.Collection: Thinking
There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen.Collection: Bends In The Road
Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.Collection: Fear
... we always love best the people who need us.Collection: Love Is
Don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away.Collection: Believe
The greatest happiness is to sneeze when you want to.Collection: Want
She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.Collection: Grandchildren
I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea," said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. "And asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know.Collection: Eye
I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.Collection: Crazy
The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.Collection: Soul
That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs.Collection: Nature
Since ever the world was spinning And till the world shall end You've your man in the beginning Or you have him in the end, But to have him from start to finish And neither nor borrow nor lend Is what all of the girls are wanting And none of the gods can sendCollection: Girl
Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.Collection: Fear
I'm so glad my window looks east into the sunrising- It's so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long hills and glowing through those sharp fir tops. It's new every morning, and I feel as if I washed my very soul in that bath of earliest sunshine.Collection: Morning
Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin.Collection: Should Have
All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.Collection: Pioneers
You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.Collection: Dream
When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.Collection: Queens
Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.Collection: Thinking
Desire grows by what it feeds on.Collection: Desire
People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.Collection: Cat
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.Collection: Motivational
Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.Collection: Bitterness
Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I lay me down to sleep." But she had, as I have told you, the glimmerings of a sense of humor--which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things; and it suddenly occurred to her that simple little prayer, sacred to the white-robed childhood lisping at motherly knees, was entirely unsuited to this freckled witch of a girl who knew and cared nothing about God's love, since she had never had it translated to her through the medium of human love.Collection: Girl
Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.Collection: Love Is
We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.Collection: Interesting
It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em," said Captain Jim. "When I ponder on them seeds I don't find it nowise hard to believe that we've got souls that'll live in other worlds. You couldn't hardly believe there was life in them tiny things, some no bigger than grains of dust, let alone colour and scent, if you hadn't seen the miracle, could you?Collection: Believe
I've a pocket full of dreams to sell," said Teddy, whimsically,... "What d'ye lack? What d'ye lack? A dream of success--a dream of adventure--a dream of the sea--a dream of the woodland--any kind of a dream you want at reasonable prices, including one or two unique little nightmares. What will you give me for a dream?Collection: Dream
How wicked I was to wish that something dramatic would happen!' she thought. 'Oh, if we could only have those dear, monotonous, pleasant days back again! I would *never* grumble about them again.Collection: Wicked
I don't really care what people think about me if they don't let me see it.Collection: Thinking
I hate to lend a book I love...it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.Collection: Hate
Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.Collection: Names
It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.Collection: Love Life
It is a strange thing to read a letter after the writer is dead - a bitter-sweet thing, in which pain and comfort are strangely mingled.Collection: Sweet
trees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. No matter how much you like them at the start you are sure to like them much better further on, and best of all when you have known them for years and enjoyed intercourse with them in all seasons.Collection: Years