Sy Montgomery Quotes

Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!

Despair is a free man--hope is a slave.

It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.

Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.

it doesn't take long to stay an hour.

Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?

That's one splendid thing about such affairs — it's so lovely to look back to them.

It's as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either.

It's fun to be almost grown up in some ways, but it's not the kind of fun I expected, Marilla. There's so much to learn and do and think that there isn't time for big words.

Tears don't hurt like the ache does.

All i want is a dress with puffy sleaves

Anne, are you killed?' shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. 'Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed.

I'm sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood.

Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.

When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.

Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously.

I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.

I don't like green Christmases. They're not green—they're just nasty faded browns and grays.

Jane's stories are extremely sensible. Then Diana puts too many murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.

Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.

Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence.

I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.

No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.

But feeling is so different from knowing. 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.

There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?

The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr," remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. "It is the most contented sound in the world.

I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.

Nothing worth while is every easy come by.

I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

She had...the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.

She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.

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

Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.

Rilla's heart skipped a beat — or, if that be a physiological impossibility, she thought it did.

It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you.

I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)

A favor is never so long-lived as a grudge.

I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.

Don't be led away by those howls about realism. Remember-pine woods are just as real as pigsties and a darn sight pleasanter to be in.

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

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

Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths.

I wish I were dead, or that it were tomorrow night,' groaned Phil.

That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them.

I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.

I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.

I believe I've put forth a tiny soul-root into Kingsport soil this afternoon. I hope so. I hate to feel transplanted.

Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces

It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.