Quotes from L.M. Montgomery

You're a brick! You're a whole cartload of bricks.

and over the river in purple durance the echoes bided there time.

I can always get through to-day very nicely. It's to-morrow I can't live through

Away down at the far end of the lake they got every night a glimpse of a big, continental train rushing through a clearing. Valancy liked to watch its lighted windows flash by and wonder who was on it and what hopes and fears it carried.

It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.

But Gilbert's visits were not what they once were. Anne almost dreaded them. It was very disconcerting to look up in the midst of a sudden silence and find Gilbert's hazel eyes fixed upon her with a quite unmistakable expression in their grave depths; and it was still more disconcerting to find herself blushing hotly and uncomfortably under his gaze, just as if—just as if—well, it was very embarrassing.

In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the gods see everywhere

Why, for mercy's sake, did boys try to dance who didn't know the first thing about dancing; and who had feet as big as boats?

It's lovely to be going home and know it's home. I love green gables already, and I've never loved any place before. Oh, Marilla, I'm so happy.

Oh hearts that loved in the good old way have been out of fashion this many a day

No. I don't think I've ever been really lonely in my life," answered Anne. "Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I LIKE to be alone now and then, just to think over things and TASTE them.

She has no serious ideals at all-her sole aspiration seems to be to have a good time.

Have you ever noticed how many different 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 all the undertones that thread are different. I'm sure if I were totally blind and insensitive to heat and cold I could easily tell just where I was by the quality of the silence about me.

My future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.

How difficult it is to realize that one we have always known can really be dead, said Anne

An old house that had lived its life long ago and so was very quiet and wise and a little mysterious. Also a little austere, but very kind.

I've been keeping up appearances all my life. Now I'm going in for realities.

Not lovelier. But a different kind of loveliness. There are so many kinds of loveliness.

Don't be fretting...about me marrying. Marrying's a trouble and not marrying's a trouble and I sticks to the trouble I knows.

Note: — One can do a great deal with appropriate smiles. I must study the subject carefully. The friendly smile — the scornful smile — the detached smile — the entreating smile — the common or garden grin.

Influence other people for good.

Grandmother's voice was ice. They do not. Your mother has been happy all these years, till you began stirring up old memories. Leave her alone . She is my daughter... no outsider shall ever come between us again... neither Andrew Stuart nor you nor anyone. And you will be good enough to remember that.

Flour is so essential to cakes, you know.

Of course it's better to be good. I know it is but it's sometimes so hard to believe a thing even when you know it