L.M. Montgomery Quotes

The trouble is you and Mrs Lynde don't understand each other. That is always what is wrong when people don't like each other. - Anne Shirley

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

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

Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive—it’s such an interesting world. It

Mrs. Lynde says Mrs. Wrights grandfather stole a sheep but Marilla says we mustent speak ill of the dead. Why mustent we, Anne? I want to know. It's pretty safe ain't it?

There is nothing but meetings and partings in this world - Anne Shirley

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.

Nothing good about this but it's title. A priggish little yarn. And Hidden Riches is not a story--it's a machine. It creaks. It never made me forget for one instant that it was a story. Hence it isn't...

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

She looks exactly like a—like a gimlet. Marilla smothered a smile under the conviction that Anne must be reproved for such a speech. A little girl like you should be ashamed of talking so about a lady...

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.

We make our own lives wherever we are, after all .

Miss Barry, who was sitting behind them, leaned forward and poked Marilla in the back with her parasol.

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

She could keep her silence, it was evident, as energetically as she could talk.

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

I’m going home to an old country farmhouse, once green, rather faded now, set among leafless apple orchards. There is a brook below and a December fir wood beyond, where I’ve heard harps swept by the...

I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.

Mrs. Lynde was complaining the other day that it wasn't much of a world. She said whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is t...

Mrs. Rachel, before she had fairly closed the door, had taken mental note of everything that was on that table. There were three plates laid, so that Marilla must be expecting some one home with Matth...