Quotes from Lucy Maud Montgomery

I've made up my mind to enjoy this drive. It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. Of course, you must make it up FIRMLY.

The white majesty of death had fallen on him and set him apart as one crowned.

Be the day short or be the day long, at last it weareth to evening song.

Un uomo, quando corteggia una ragazza, deve avere le stesse idee religiose di sua madre e quelle politiche di suo padre.

For Anne to take things calmly would have been to change her nature. All spirit and fire and dew, as she was, the pleasures and pains of life came to her with trebled intensity. Marilla felt this and was vaguely troubled over it, realizing that the ups and downs of existence would probably bear hardly on this impulsive soul and not sufficiently understanding that the equally great capacity for delight might more than compensate.

I have only known you for a few months but I cannot realize that there was ever a time when I did not know you. . .when you had not come into my life to bless and hallow it. I will always look back to this year as the most wonderful in my life because it brought you to me... My love for you has made my life very rich and it has kept me from much of harm and evil. I owe this all to you, my sweetest teacher.

There's always a piece of unfinished work left, but I suppose there is always someone to finish it.

Kittens HAVE to be drowned, I admit, or the world would be overrun. But no decent, grown-up cat should be done to death -- unless he sucks eggs.

If you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

It had always seemed to Emily, ever since she could remember, that she was very, very near to a world of wonderful beauty. Between it and her hung only a thin curtain; she could never draw the curtain aside- but sometimes, just for a moment, a wind fluttered it and then it was as if she caught a glimpse of the enchanting realm beyond-only a glimpse and heard a note of unearthly music.

I have lost my mind is spells and I do not dare to think what I may do in those spells. May God forgive me and I hope everyone else will forgive me even if they cannot understand. My position is too awful to endure and nobody realizes it. What an end to a life in which I tried always to do my best.

You never can tell what you can do till you try.

I do hope that some day I shall have a white dress. That is my highest ideal of earthly bliss.

I can tell stories that will freeze the blood in your veins.

Good-evening, Miss Stirling. Nothing could be more commonplace and conventional. Any one might have said it. But Barney Snaith had a way of saying things that gave them poignancy. When he said good-evening you felt that it was a good evening and it was partly his doing that it was. Also, you felt that some of the credit was yours.

The real poem is the soul within them and that beautiful bit is the soul of an unwritten poem. It's not everyday one sees a soul, even of a poem.

You don't know love when you see it. You've tricked something out with your imagination that you think love, and you expect the real thing to look like that. There, that's the first sensible thing I've ever said in my life. I wonder how I managed it?

Well, said Marilla, unable to find an excuse for deffering her explanation longer, I suppose I might as well tell you. Matthew and I have decided to keep you- that is, if you try to be a good little girl and show yourself grateful. Why, child whatever is the matter? I'm crying, said Anne in a tone of bewilderment. I can't think why. I'm as glad as can be.

I can't feel exactly happy... Nobody could that has red hair

E ela era mais rica naqueles sonhos do que na realidade, pois o que os olhos veem é passageiro, mas o que não veem é eterno.

Anne Shirley, you're only pretending to be grown up. I believe when you're alone you're as much a little girl as you ever were.

When the moon rises tonight, think of me and I'll think of you.

Then she lifted her face and smiled gallantly at the empty sky. 'There will be other rainbows.' she said. Emily was a chaser of rainbows.

I went on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen and has a fancy.