Quotes from L.M. Montgomery

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

Snow in April is abominable, said Anne. Like a slap in the face when you expected a kiss.

When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud. But really, Marilla, the flying part is glorious as long as it lasts...it's like soaring through a sunset. I think it almost pays for the thud.

Tears don't hurt like the ache does.

To dispair is to turn your back on God.

There is no such thing as freedom on earth, he said. Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage.

That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.

She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.

When I left Queen's 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 am going to believe that the best does. It has a fascination of its own, that bend, Marilla. I wonder how the road beyond it goes - what there is of green glory and soft, checkered light and shadows - what new landscapes - what new beauties - what curves and hills and valleys farther on.

Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them, exclaimed Anne.

Oh, but there's such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it,' wailed Anne. 'You may know a thing is so, but you can't help hoping other people don't quite think it is.

The greatest happiness [...] is to sneeze when you want to.

Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert her

I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.

I am sure we should not shut our hearts against the healing influences that nature offers us. But I understand your feeling. I think we all experience the same thing. We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us.

Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.

My library isn't very extensive but every book in it is a friend.

You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?

I am afraid to speak or move for the fear all this wonderful beauty will vanish just like a broken silence

Well, it all comes to this; there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in your own. After all, I believe in myself. I'm not so bad and silly as they think me, and I'm not consumptive, and I can write. Now that I've written it all out I feel differently about it. The only thing that still aggravates me is that Miss Potter pitied me -- pitied by a Potter!

The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.

If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet,' said Priscilla. Anne glowed. 'I'm so glad you spoke that thought, Priscilla, instead of just thinking it and keeping it to yourself. This world would be a much more interesting place…although it is very interesting, anyhow…if people spoke out their real thoughts.

Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.