Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes - Page 8

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

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.

…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.

You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets.

I love bright red drinks, don’t you? They taste twice as good as any other color.

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

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.

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.

What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.

People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.

Tears don't hurt like the ache does.

All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.

the little things in life often make more trouble than the big things.

You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.

People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.

Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.

Desire grows by what it feeds on.

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.

Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.

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.

Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

a few italics really do relieve your feelings.

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

Having adventures comes natural to some people", said Anne serenely. "You just have a gift for them or you haven't.