Quotes from L.M. Montgomery

That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.

It is the injustice that stings me. There go more italics! But a few italics really do relieve your feelings.

Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped

In the afternoon we all repaired to the orchard, Bibles and hymn books in hand. We did not think it necessary to inform the grown-ups of what was in the wind. You could never tell what kink a grown-up would take. They might not think it proper to play any sort of a game on Sunday, not even a Christian game. Least said was soonest mended where grown-ups were concerned.

She was positively unable to reply to Annetta's

because when you ARE imagining you might as well imagine something worth while

Anne," said Leslie, breaking abruptly a short silence, "you don't know how GOOD it is to be sitting here with you again — working — and talking — and being silent together.

Quizá no consigas las cosas en sí mismas, pero nada puede arrebatarte el placer de esperarlas con ilusión.

The Pringles are mushrooms compared to them.

Ellen went on shelling peas for a few minutes. Then she suddenly put her hands up to her own face. There were tears in her black-browed eyes. I—I

Anne's horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming home from Queen's; but if the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joy of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams. And there was always the bend in the road!

triumphant general. I'd give EVERYTHING to see a big battle. Well, Jem was to be a soldier and see a greater battle

Job! It was such a rare thing to find a patient man that when one was really discovered they were determined he shouldn't be forgotten,' retorted Miss Cornelia triumphantly.

her. But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?

How can I be vain when I know I'm homely? protested Anne. I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.

It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?

She is good and smart, which is better than being pretty.

No, I don't want you to kiss me--yet. And our first kiss mustn't have the flavour of good-bye. It would be a bad omen. Star o' Morning, I'm sorry you're going. But I'll see you again before long.

Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with … making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself.

You'll never have to say that after this, Delilah. I will always love you." "World without end?" "World without end," answered Diana. They kissed each other, as in a rite. Two boys on the fence whooped derisively, but who cared?

One couldn't be afraid or bitter where love was—and love was everywhere.

Anne laughed -- then shivered. I can never forget the night I thought you were dying, Gilbert. Oh, I knew -- I KNEW then -- and I thought it was too late. But it wasn't, sweetheart. Oh, Anne, this makes up for everything, doesn't it? Let's resolve to keep this day sacred to perfect beauty all our lives for the gift it has given us. It's the birthday of our happiness, said Anne softly.

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is always fresh with no mistakes in it yet?

Girls, sometimes I feel as if those exams meant everything, but when I look at the big buds swelling on those chestnut trees and the misty blue air at the end of the streets they don't seem half so important.