Quotes from L.M. Montgomery

Pat wanted to comfort him for something she did not understand. She slipped her little hand into his...he had a warm pleasant hand. They walked home together so.

You couldn't really expect a person to pray very well the first time she tried, could you?

Well, hope for your thrilling career - but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay the piper in the coin of suffering. If not you - then someone else.

Then they walked home together in the dusk, crowned king and queen in the bridal realm of love, along winding paths fringed with the sweetest flowers that ever bloomed, and over haunted meadows where winds of hope and memory blew.

Several pages omitted. Anne's pen being evidently neither sharp, stub nor rusty.)

Revenge hurts nobody quite so much as the one who tries to inflict it.

Again Anne shivered. How terrible Ã¢â'¬Â¦ sitting opposite each other at table Ã¢â'¬Â¦ lying down beside each other at night Ã¢â'¬Â¦ going to church with their babies to be christened Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and hating each other through it all! Yet they must have loved to begin with. Was it possible she and Gilbert could ever Ã¢â'¬Â¦ nonsense! The Pringles were getting on her nerves. Handsome

After all, it is fairy tales the world wants. Real life is all the real life we want. Give us something better in books.

A seafaring uncle had given it to her mother who in turn had bequeathed it to Marilla. It was an old-fashioned oval, containing a braid of her mother's hair, surrounded by a border of very fine amethysts.

Oh, I don't know. I've come so far short in so many things. I haven't done what I meant to do when I began to teach last fall. I haven't lived up to my ideals. None of us ever do, said Mrs. Allan with a sigh. But then, Anne, you know what Lowell says, 'Not failure but low aim is crime.' We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great. Hold fast to your ideals, Anne.

There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there?

it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it

I have got acquainted with Lofty John. Ilse is a great friend of his and often goes there to watch him working in his carpenter shop. He says he has made enough ladders to get to heaven without the priest but that is just his joke.

Oh, no, you did not, Mrs. Dr. dear, said loyal Susan, determined to protect Anne from herself.

Well, it is half an hour yet before prayer-meeting time, so I am going around to the kitchen garden to have a little evening hate with the weeds.

Mi vida es un perfecto cementerio de esperanzas enterradas.

Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them. You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.

I said I thought I liked Dean's idea of a succession of lives - I can't make out from him whether he really believes that or not - and Ilse said that might be all very well if you were sure of being born again as a decent person, but how about it if you weren't?

It must be a great deal better to be sensible; but still, I don't believe I'd really want to be a sensible person, because they are so unromantic.

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive—it's such an interesting world. It

Only lonely people keep diaries

Oh, Marilla, she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming dancing in with her arms full of gorgeous boughs 'I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it?

No hay espacio para la imaginación en la geometría.

As they dashed into the kitchen the light seemed to vanish, as if blown out by some mighty breath; the awful cloud rolled over the sun and a darkness as of late twilight fell across the world.