L.M. Montgomery, Emily Of New Moon Quotes

To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!

If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.

Well, hope for your thrilling career - but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay the piper in the coin of suffering. If not you - then someone else.

Steal not this book for fear of shameFor on it is the owners nameAnd when you die the Lord will sayWhere is the book you stole awayAnd when you say you do not knowThe Lord will say go down below.

Never on painter's canvas livesThe charm of his fancy's dream.

If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't.

A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself.