Quotes from L. M. Montgomery

Il guaio delle fantasticherie è che arriva sempre il momento in cui bisogna cancellarle. Ed è un gran brutto momento.

Estoy segura de que nadie podría perfeccionarse y salir adelante sin haber tenido que vencer algunas penas.

Excitement hung around Anne like a garment, shone in her eyes, kindled in every feature.

Çok hata yap?yorum. Ama yapabileceÄŸim halde yapmad???m bütün o hatalar? bir düÅŸünsene.

I never was in love with him. I only imagined I was. You know that. You know I'd rather be your wife in our house of dreams and fulfillment than a queen in a palace.

Doss dear, said Cousin Georgiana mournfully, some day you will discover that blood is thicker than water. Of course it is. But who wants water to be thick? parried Valancy. We want water to be thin--sparkling--crystal-clear.

God's in His heaven, all's right with the world.

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be--to me in all events--a terrible thing without books.

The possibilities of making new friends help to make life very fascinating. But no matter how many friends I make they'll never be as dear to me as the old ones.

Nobody cared anything for me or wanted to be bothered with me. I should have been miserable if it hadn't been for that stange little dream-life of mine, wherein I imagined all the friends and love I craved. But when I came to Green Gables everything was changed. And then I met you. You don't know what your friendship meant to me. I want to thank you here and now, dear, for the warm and true affection you've always given me.

Oh, sometimes I think it is no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after a while and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came

the rose of love made the blossom of friendship small and pale by contrast

You won't mind if I talk a good deal about her, will you, Mistress Blythe? It's a pleasure to me--for all the pain went out of her memory years ago and jest left its blessing. -Captain Jim

Old-fashioned names are the best and sweetest in my opinion.

I get tired of other girls—there is such a provoking and eternal sameness about them.

I guess there'll be nothing disrespectful in it if you're careful to speak respectfully.

Todos os grandes acontecimentos se entrelaçam com os pequenos.

The bitterest kind of heartache—the ache that burns and gnaws and cannot wash itself away in ready tears.

And although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.

E embora valha muito a pena ter ambições, elas não são conquistadas a pouco custo: demandam seu quinhão de trabalho e abnegação, ansiedade e desânimo.

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.

What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.

The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is.