Sy Montgomery Quotes

Don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away.

Trees have as much individuality as human beings. Not even two spruces are alike. There is always some kink or curve or bend of bough to single each one out from its fellows.

Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.

It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?

Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not often hidden — only ugliness and deformity.

Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.

Red hair is my life long sorrow.

Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.

One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.

It's great to be great, but it's great to be human.

She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.

When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.

I am well in body although considerable rumpled up in spirit.

Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.

Death grows friendlier as we grow older.

You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.

It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.

But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm with them two for compass and pilot.

Having adventures comes natural to some people", said Anne serenely. "You just have a gift for them or you haven't.

It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?

But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.

I don't really care what people think about me if they don't let me see it.

I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial.

Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.

It is a strange thing to read a letter after the writer is dead - a bitter-sweet thing, in which pain and comfort are strangely mingled.

Don't look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can't be sober and serious - everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.

War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.

most people worry so much, they think you're not right if you don't worry.

a few italics really do relieve your feelings.

And he wrote, "When the moon rises tonight think of me and I'll think of you.

In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well

I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.

Being frightened of things is worse than the things themselves.

I've had a splendid time," she concluded happily, "and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.

Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?

It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.

I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]

Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?

The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.

she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen.

Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.

Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.

How wicked I was to wish that something dramatic would happen!' she thought. 'Oh, if we could only have those dear, monotonous, pleasant days back again! I would *never* grumble about them again.

I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.

I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.

Our sacrifice is greater than his," cried Rilla passionately. "Our boys give only themselves. We give them.

the little things in life often make more trouble than the big things.

When I make up my mind to do a thing it stays made up.