Quotes from L.M. Montgomery

I went up 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 in halls of fancy.

There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a comforting thought

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

If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't.

Fear is the original sin," suddenly said a still, small voice away back—back—back of Valancy's consciousness. "Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something." Valancy stood up. She was still in the clutches of fear, but her soul was her own again. She would not be false to that inner voice.

Well, one can't get over the habit of being a liitle girl all at once.

Anne looked at the white young mother with a certain awe that had never entered into her feelings for Diana before. Could this pale woman with the rapture in her eyes be the little black-curled, rosy-cheeked Diana she had played with in vanished schooldays? It gave her a queer desolate feeling that she herself somehow belonged only in those past years and had no business in the present at all.

there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets.

It was a lovely afternoon - such an afternoon as only September can produce when summer has stolen back for one more day of dream and glamour.

But maybe everything'll go all right. In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take what ever God sends.

At that moment Marilla had a revelation. In the sudden stab of fear that pierced her very heart she realized what Anne had come to mean to her. She would have admitted that she liked Anne--nay, that she was very fond of Anne. But now she knew as she hurried wildly down the slope that Anne was dearer to her than anything else on earth

Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.

I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea, said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. And asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know.

You'll stay right here with me, Anne-girl, said Gilbert lazily. I won't have you flying away from me into the hearts of storms.

She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.

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

We'll never say good-bye to each other. We'll just smile and go.

It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.

Thirty seconds can be very long sometimes. Long enough to work a miracle or a revolution.

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it." ? L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won't talk back - unless it is a woman who won't.

I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment…

There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former understood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation--was reveling in the thoroughness of her abasement. Where was the wholesome punishment upon which she, Marilla, had plumed herself? Anne had turned it into a species of positive pleasure.

Anne has as many shades as a rainbow and every shade is the prettiest while it lasts.