L.M. Montgomery Quotes

As they dashed into the kitchen the light seemed to vanish, as if blown out by some mighty breath; the awful cloud rolled over the sun and a darkness as of late twilight fell across the world.

Long ago, before I had ever seen a diamond, I read about them and I tried to imagine what they would be like ... When I saw a real diamond in a lady's ring one day I was so disappointed I cried. Of co...

You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.

There was a faint chill in the air of the early September evening, so Anne had lighted her ever ready fire of driftwood in the big living room, and she and Miss Cornelia basked in its fairy flicker. I...

I thought out a splendid prayer after I went to bed, just

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

We are schoolmates, I see, he said, smiling at Anne's colors. That ought to be sufficient introduction. My name is Royal Gardner.

When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud. But really, Marilla, the flying...

Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.

CHAPTER XII. THE BLUE CHEST OF RACHEL WARD

There is nothing but meetings and partings in this world

Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible…and good? What would we find to talk about?

We make our own lives wherever we are, after all... They are broad or narrow according to what we put into them, not what we get out.

We make our own lives wherever we are, after all[...]They are broad or narrow according to what we put into them, not what we get out. Life is rich and full here...everywhere...if we can only learn ho...

We miss so much out of life if we do not love. The more we love the richer life is.

You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.

Then they walked home together in the dusk, crowned king and queen in the bridal realm of love, along winding paths fringed with the sweetest flowers that ever bloomed, and over haunted meadows where...

But Gilbert's visits were not what they once were. Anne almost dreaded them. It was very disconcerting to look up in the midst of a sudden silence and find Gilbert's hazel eyes fixed upon her with a q...

The knowledge of that land's geography…'east o' the sun, west o' the moon'…is priceless lore, not to be bought in any market place. It must be the gift of the good fairies at birth and the years can n...

Well, the Story Girl was right. There is such a place as fairyland—but only children can find the way to it. And they do not know that it is fairyland until they have grown so old that they forget the...