Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes
In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.
It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.
I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.
It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.
If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery
I hate to lend a book I love...it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
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 would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine
As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways.
there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.
I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it?
She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expect a kiss.
It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.
Maples are such sociable trees ... They're always rustling and whispering to you.
Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.
An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.
We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.
I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful.
I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.
I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.
I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.
It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?
Why, I've never even had a quarrel with any one. I haven't an enemy. What a spineless thing I must be not to have even one enemy!
Besides, I've been feeling a little blue — just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker.
I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.