Quotes from Lucy Maud Montgomery

Seus tesouros estavam todos guardados na Terra, pois vivera apena para os pequenos prazeres mundanos, as coisas efêmeras, e esqueceu-se das grandes coisas que seguem junto da alma até a eternidade e que constroem uma ponte sobre o hiato que há entre as duas vidas, fazendo da morte uma mera passagem entre tempos e lugares, como do anoitecer ao dia pleno

Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.

All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.

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

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.

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

Red hair is my life long sorrow.

I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.

But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?

But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?

it doesn't take long to stay an hour.

It's fun to be almost grown up in some ways, but it's not the kind of fun I expected, Marilla. There's so much to learn and do and think that there isn't time for big words.

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.

Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!

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

Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

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

Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.

I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.

it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine

Maples are such sociable trees ... They're always rustling and whispering to you.