Quotes About Lucy Maud Montgomery

The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first "adult novel," Lucy Maud Montgomery's The Blue Castle.

I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse

I'm afraid to speak or move for fear that all this wonderful beauty will just vanish... like a broken silence.

What are you going to do with the money Anne? Let's all go up town and get drunk!

All the Beyond was hers with its possibilities lurking rosily in the oncoming years--each year a rose of promise to be woven into an immoral chaplet.

If Gilbert had been asked to describe his ideal woman the description would have answered point for point to Anne, even to those seven tiny freckles whose obnoxious presence still continued to vex her soul

I do love the west wind. It sings of hope and gladness, doesn't it? When the east wind blows I always think of sorrowful rain on the eaves and sad waves on a gray shore. When I get old I shall have rheumatism when the wind is east.

All the months are friends of mine but apple month is the dearest, chanted Pat. It was October at Silver Bush. . .

My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

tis true, 'tis pity, and 'tis pity, 'tis true.' what delightful things we might do were it not for Mrs. Harmon Andrews!