Quotes from L.M. Montgomery

Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

You may know a thing is so, but you can't help hoping other people don't quite think it is

You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?

If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.

I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.

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

I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.

One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.

I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.

The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.

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

The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.

It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?

I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.

But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'.

I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.

Oh, she thought, how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!

Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it.

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

I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no new book can ever have -- for at every reading the memories and atmosphere of other readings come back and I am reading old years as well as an old book.

When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.