L.M. Montgomery Quotes

Oh, Miss Shirley, can you smell the apple-blossom fragrance? Having a nose, Anne could.

It was really dreadful to be different from other people...and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.

She spoke out, with plainness and directness. When you had to deal a mortal blow, why try to lighten it?

Sally says they’ll fight most of their time but that they’ll be happier fighting with each other than agreeing with anybody else. But I don’t think they’ll fight... much. I think it is just misunderst...

The world is always young again for just a few moments at the dawn.

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new a day with no mistakes in it

I don't believe Old Nick can be so very ugly,' said Aunt Jamesina reflectively. 'He wouldn't do so much harm if he was. I always think of him as a rather handsome gentleman.

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 love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.

While the others chatted over their parcels Jean wrote her letter, and Jean could write delightful letters. She had a decided talent in that respect, and her correspondents all declared her letters to...

If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up. -L.M. Montgomery

Was a clear, apple-green evening in May, and Four Winds Harbour was mirroring back the clouds of the golden west between its softly dark shores. The sea moaned eerily on the sand-bar, sorrowful even i...

I can always get through to-day very nicely. It's to-morrow I can't live through

Oh, but there's such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it,' wailed Anne. 'You may know a thing is so, but you can't help hoping other people don't quite think i...

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it. L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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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. Chapter XX.

Prose, rightly written and read, is sometimes as beautiful as poetry.

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

If I had my way I’d shut everything out of your life but happiness and pleasure, Anne, said Gilbert