Quotes from L.M. Montgomery

But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.

But oughtn't we to be prepared for the best too? It's just as likely to happen as the worst.

I read the story of Red Riding Hood today. I think the wolf was the most interesting character in it. Red Riding Hood was a stupid little thing so easily fooled.

Thank goodness air and salvation are still free...and so is laughter.

What a splendid day!' said Anne, drawing a long breath. 'Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it. They may have good days, of course, but they can never have this one.

Have you ever noticed how many silences there are Gilbert? The silence of the woods....of the shore....of the meadows....of the night....of the summer afternoon. All different because the undertones that thread them are different.

The only thing you can be sure of in this world is the multiplication table.

Don't you feel as if you just loved the world on a morning like this?

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

Dear old world. You are very lovely and I am glad to be alive in you - Anne Shirley

I don't really care what people think about me if they don't let me see it.

Dreams don't often come true, do they? Wouldn't it be nice if they did?

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.

Ah, well, let's not borrow trouble; the rate of interest is too high.

There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.

I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn't be I — as if I must have changed into somebody else and couldn't get used to it. It gives me a horrible lonely, dazed, helpless feeling. It's good to see you again — it seems as if you were a sort of anchor for my drifting soul.

Anne, are you killed?' shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. 'Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed.

In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well

One can't stay sad for long in such an interesting world, can one?

Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths.

Today has been a day dropped out of June into April.

Oh, it makes SUCH a difference. It LOOKS so much nicer. When you hear a name pronounced can't you always see it in your mind, just as if it was printed out? I can; and A-n-n looks dreadful, but A-n-n-e looks so much more distinguished. If you'll only call me Anne spelled with an E I shall try to reconcile myself to not being called Cordelia.

Everything is made new in the spring. Springs themselves are always so new, too. No spring is ever just like any other spring. It always has something of its own to be its peculiar sweetness.