L.M. Montgomery, Anne Of Avonlea Quotes

…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.

Look, do you see that poem?' she said suddenly, pointing.

She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.

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.

I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.

Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.

I've come home in love with loneliness

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

Oh, sometimes I think it is of 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.

I guess you've got a spice of temper, " commented Mr. Harrison, surveying the flushed cheeks and indignant eyes opposite him. "It goes with hair like yours, I reckon

It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared, ' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night.

People who are different from other people are always called peculiar, ' said Anne.

...And every day in heaven will be more beautiful than the one before it Davy, " assured Anne.

Well, one can't get over the habit of being a liitle girl all at once.

And yet... you wouldn't want it to stop hurting... you wouldn't want to forget your little mother even if you could.

I don't like places or people either that haven't any faults. I think that a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting.

Some are born old maids, some achieve old maidenhood, and some have old maidenhood thrust upon them, " parodied Miss Lavendar whimsically.

Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

What I want to get out of my college course is some knowledge of the best way of living life and doing the most and best with it. I want to learn to understand and help other people and myself.