Quotes from Lucy Maud Montgomery

Fear is the original sin," suddenly said a still, small voice away back—back—back of Valancy's consciousness. "Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.

It never rains but it pours.

It is not every day one sees a soul-even of a poem

Los únicos momentos en los que siento que estoy envejeciendo son cuando miro las fotografías de las revistas. Los héroes y las heroínas me están pareciendo demasiado jóvenes.

Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child

The world looks like something that God imagined for his own pleasure.

For a moment Anne´s heart fluttered queerly and for the first time her eyes faltered under Gilbert´s gaze and a rosy flush stained the paleness of her face. It was as if a veil that had hung before her inner consciousness had been lifted, giving to her view a revelation of unsuspected feelings and realities.

She had an uneasy feeling that it was rather sinful to set one's heart so intensely on any human creature as she had set hers on Anne, and perhaps she performed a sort of unconscious penance for this by being stricter and more critical than if the girl had been less dear to her.

In a halo of rainbow glory, I sit me down to rest. I forget the present and future, I live over the past once more, As I see before me crowding the beautiful days of yore.

Jutro jest wolne od bÅ'Ä™dów.

I heard a song across the sea. As sweet and faint as echoes are, And glimpsed a poignant happiness. No care of earth might mar. Dear God, our life is beautiful In every splendid gift it brings, But most I thank Thee humbly for the joy of little things.

Pues yo creo que esperar las cosas con ilusión es precisamente la mitad de su placer

El viento ululaba entre las ramas de los árboles, y ya se sabe que en el mundo no hay música más dulce que la del viento sonando en las copas de los pinos al atardecer

This book may or may not succeed. I wrote it for love, not money, but very often such books are the most successful, just as everything that is born of true love has life in it, as nothing constructed for mercenary ends can ever have.

I do love the west wind. It sings of hope and gladness, doesn't it? When the east wind blows I always think of sorrowful rain on the eaves and sad waves on a gray shore. When I get old I shall have rheumatism when the wind is east.

The mention of college gave a new direction to Gilbert's thoughts, and they talked for a time of their plans and wishes... gravely, earnestly, hopefully, as youth loves to talk, while the future is yet an untrodden path full of wonderful possibilities.

There's such a lot of different Annes in me. … If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.

Won't you try to remember you're a lady? she pleaded. Oh, if there were only any hope of being able to forget it

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.

It is mortifying to refuse a man and then discover that his main feeling is bewilderment

All the months are friends of mine but apple month is the dearest, chanted Pat. It was October at Silver Bush. . .

Czy to nie przyjemnie, ?e jest tak du?o rzeczy, które jeszcze poznamy? To wÅ'aÅ›nie sprawia, ?e ja siÄ™ tak cieszÄ™ ?yciem... Å›wiat jest taki ciekawy... Nie byÅ'by taki ani w poÅ'owie, gdybyÅ›my wszystko o nim wiedzieli, prawda?

Mais vale um pássaro na mão do que dois voando, a senhora Morris disse para ela. — Tenho ouvido esse provérbio a minha vida inteira — disse Myra Murray —, e me pergunto se é verdade. Talvez os pássaros voando pudessem cantar, e aquele na mão, não.

It's better to imagine than to know.