Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes - Page 11

It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up.

In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you

It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.

…there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets.

I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

"Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne. "You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.".

But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my dreams have that I mustn't complain. Am I all ready now?

I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.

Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.

She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness.

I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.

Despair is a free man--hope is a slave.

All i want is a dress with puffy sleaves

I'm sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood.

Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!

Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.

Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.

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)

We belong to the race that knows Joseph

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?

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.

Red hair is my life long sorrow.

After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?

Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?