L.M. Montgomery Quote

Said Una. That birch is such a place for birds and they sing like mad in the mornings. I'd take the Porter lot where there's so many children buried. I like lots of company, said Faith. Carl, where'd you? I'd rather not be buried at all, said Carl, but if I had to be I'd like the ant-bed. Ants are AWF'LY int'resting. How very good all the people who are buried here must have been, said Una, who had been reading the laudatory old epitaphs. There doesn't seem to be a single bad person in the whole graveyard. Methodists must be better than Presbyterians after all. Maybe the Methodists bury their bad people just like they do cats, suggested Carl. Maybe they don't bother bringing them to the graveyard at all. Nonsense, said Faith. The people that are buried here weren't any better than other folks, Una. But when anyone is dead you mustn't say anything of him but good or he'll come back and ha'nt you. Aunt Martha told me that. I asked father if it was true and he just looked through me and muttered,

L.M. Montgomery

Said Una. That birch is such a place for birds and they sing like mad in the mornings. I'd take the Porter lot where there's so many children buried. I like lots of company, said Faith. Carl, where'd you? I'd rather not be buried at all, said Carl, but if I had to be I'd like the ant-bed. Ants are AWF'LY int'resting. How very good all the people who are buried here must have been, said Una, who had been reading the laudatory old epitaphs. There doesn't seem to be a single bad person in the whole graveyard. Methodists must be better than Presbyterians after all. Maybe the Methodists bury their bad people just like they do cats, suggested Carl. Maybe they don't bother bringing them to the graveyard at all. Nonsense, said Faith. The people that are buried here weren't any better than other folks, Una. But when anyone is dead you mustn't say anything of him but good or he'll come back and ha'nt you. Aunt Martha told me that. I asked father if it was true and he just looked through me and muttered,

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About L.M. Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. She published 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays. Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success; the title character, orphan Anne Shirley, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. Most of the novels were set on Prince Edward Island, and those locations within Canada's smallest province became a literary landmark and popular tourist site – namely Green Gables farm, the genesis of Prince Edward Island National Park. She was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1935.
Montgomery's work, diaries, and letters have been read and studied by scholars and readers worldwide. The L. M. Montgomery Institute, University of Prince Edward Island, is responsible for the scholarly inquiry into the life, works, culture, and influence of L. M. Montgomery.