Quotes from Lucy Maud Montgomery

I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.

Perhaps. . .love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.

Dogs want only love but cats demand worship.

I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.

I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.

... we always love best the people who need us.

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.

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

…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.

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

It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.

Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.

But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.

When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.

There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?

Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.

if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.

Worrying helps you some. It seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.

The greatest happiness is to sneeze when you want to.

When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.

I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!