L.M. Montgomery Quotes

I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial," said Anne, rather scornfully. "Nobody would expect two blacksmiths to be viol...

The right kind of a clock. One that did not hurry the hours away but ticked them off deliberately.

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

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

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

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

Get out on the rocks or the fields or the water and spout them. Captain Jim had come up that afternoon to bring Anne a load of shells for her garden, and a little bunch of sweet-grass which he had fou...

It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.

You may tire of reality, but you never tire of dreams

I wish I was dead, or that it were tomorrow night, groaned Phil.If you live long enough both wishes will come true, said Anne calmly.

The greatest happiness [...] is to sneeze when you want to.

CHAPTER XV. A DISOBEDIENT BROTHER

Oh, well, I won't call you 'Johnny' any more. After this I'll call you 'Sammy,' which was, of course, adding fuel to the fire.

There was nobody else —there never could be anybody else for me but you. I’ve loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.

Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well but there is more 'scope for the imagination without them. - Anne Shirley

He was a cat of double personality - or else, as Susan vowed, he was possessed by the devil.

I never fancied cats much till I found the First Mate, he remarked, to the accompaniment of the Mate's tremendous purrs. I saved his life, and when you've saved a creature's life you're bound to love...

None of us ever do, said Mrs. Allan witha sigh. But then, Anne, you know what Lowellsays, ‘Not failure but low aim is crime.’ Wemust have ideals and try to live up to them,even if we never quite succe...

I always say good night to the things I love, just as I would to people.

If I had my way I'd shut everything out of your life but happiness and pleasure, Anne, said Gilbert in the tone that meant danger ahead. Then