Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes - Page 4

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.

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

It's great to be great, but it's great to be human.

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.

I must get out all my ambitions and dust them.

It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.

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.

There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.

never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.

She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

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.

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.

I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.

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.

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.

…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.

Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.

When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expect a kiss.

I believe flowers have souls. I have known roses that I expect to meet in heaven.

Dogs want only love but cats demand worship.