Lucy Maud Montgomery
…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.Collection: Grief
Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.Collection: Made
That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.Collection: Children
I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!Collection: Cheer
Well now, I'd rather have you than a dozen boys, Anne,' said Matthew patting her hand. 'Just mind you that — rather than a dozen boys. Well now, I guess it wasn't a boy that took the Avery scholarship, was it? It was a girl — my girl — my girl that I'm proud of.Collection: Girl
If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet,' said Priscilla. Anne glowed. 'I'm so glad you spoke that thought, Priscilla, instead of just thinking it and keeping it to yourself. This world would be a much more interesting place…although it is very interesting, anyhow…if people spoke out their real thoughts.Collection: Real
You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair." — Anne ShirleyCollection: Hair
It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night.Collection: Reflection
I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.Collection: Wish
Since you are determined to be married, Miss Cornelia," said Gilbert solemnly, "I shall give you the excellent rules for the management of a husband which my grandmother gave my mother when she married my father." "Well, I reckon I can manage Marshall Elliott," said Miss Cornelia placidly. "But let us hear your rules." "The first one is, catch him." "He's caught. Go on." "The second one is, feed him well." "With enough pie. What next?" "The third and fourth are-- keep your eye on him.Collection: Mother
Anne’s horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming home from Queen’s; but if the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joys of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams. And there was always the bend in the road!Collection: Dream
Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?Collection: Men
A favor is never so long-lived as a grudge.Collection: Long
I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)Collection: World
Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not yet done with dreams and laughter and the joy of life; there were to be future summers for the little stone house; meanwhile, it could wait. And over the river in purple durance the echoes bided their time.Collection: Summer
What is it really like to be engaged?" asked Anne curiously. "Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to," answered Diana, with that maddening air of superior wisdom always assumed by those who are engaged over those who are not.Collection: Air
Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.Collection: Wise
I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.Collection: Thinking
Don't you ever imagine things differently than what they are? Oh, Marilla, how much you miss.Collection: Missing
I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.Collection: Broken Heart
I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial," said Anne, rather scornfully. "Nobody would expect two blacksmiths to be violently attracted toward each other merely because they were both blacksmiths.Collection: Two
You're not eating anything," said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. I can't. I'm in the depths of despair. Can you eat when you are in the depths of despair?" I've never been in the depths of despair, so I can't say," responded Marilla. Weren't you? Well, did you ever try to IMAGINE you were in the depths of despair?" No, I didn't." Then I don't think you can understand what it's like. It's very uncomfortable a feeling indeed.Collection: Thinking
You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?Collection: Writing
Jane's stories are extremely sensible. Then Diana puts too many murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.Collection: People
But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?Collection: Long
Anne "felt instinctively" that romance was peeping at her around a corner.Collection: Romance
Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)Collection: Real
…always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches had hurt her in her own sorrow and was afraid.Collection: Hurt
never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.Collection: Writing
When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.Collection: Stars
Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.Collection: Years
I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.Collection: Book
Everything is new in the spring. Springs themselves are always so new, too. No spring is ever just like any other spring. It always has something of its own to be its own peculiar sweetness.Collection: Spring
It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?Collection: Forgiveness
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.Collection: Love
...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.Collection: Sorrow
I believe flowers have souls. I have known roses that I expect to meet in heaven.Collection: Believe
Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expect a kiss.Collection: Kissing
If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.Collection: Silence
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.Collection: Positive
I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset... almost pays for the thud.Collection: Sunset
She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.Collection: Suffering
[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.Collection: Giving Up
The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.Collection: Past
I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.Collection: Mind
I have a dream," he said slowly. "I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends -- and YOU!Collection: Dream
It was really dreadful to be so different from other people…and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.Collection: Stars
I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.Collection: Ambition
Dogs want only love but cats demand worship.Collection: Dog