L.M. Montgomery Quotes

It's—it's—just like a man, said Miss Cornelia helplessly.

Beauty was all around them. Unsuspected tintings glimmered in the dark demesnes of the woods and glowed in their alluring by-ways. The spring sunshine sifted through the young green leaves. Gay trills...

If I wasn’t ME who’d I be?

Jane was smiling and happy; examinations were over and she was comfortably sure she had made a pass at least; further considerations troubled Jane not at all; she had no soaring ambitions and conseque...

John Foster says, quoted Valancy, 'If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be...

Whenever he got stuck for an idea, he would bang the Bible and shout very bitterly, 'Curse ye Meroz.' Poor Meroz got thoroughly cursed that day, whoever he was, Mrs. Dr. dear, said Susan. The

Knitting is something you can do, even when your heart is going like a trip-hammer and the pit of your stomach feels all gone and your thoughts are catawampus. Then when I see the headlines, be they g...

Lawful heart, did any one ever see such freckles? And hair as red as carrots!

I am grateful that my childhood was spent in a spot where there were many trees, trees of personality, planted and tended by hands long dead, bound up with everything of joy or sorrow that visited our...

Bohemian—a respectable sort of tramp.

What was Latin and the chance of tattooing compared to this?

What a starved, unloved life she had had—a life of drudgery and poverty and neglect; for Marilla was shrewd enough to read between the lines of Anne's history and divine the truth.

Man-like, said Miss Cornelia,

Marilla loved the [more grown up] girl as much as she had loved the child, but she was conscious of a queer sorrowful sense of loss.

Marilla, isn’t niece to think that to-morrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet? I’ll warrant you’ll make plenty in it said Marilla. I never saw your beat for making mistakes, Anne. Yes, and well...

Marilla, what if I fail!''You'll hardly fail completely in one day and there's plenty more days coming,' said Marilla.

Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.

A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes

Favour is deceitful and beauty is vain, but I should not have minded finding that out for myself, if it had been so ordained. I have no doubt we will all be beautiful when we are angels, but what good...

There had been no snow up to this time, but as Diana crossed the old log bridge on her homeward way the white flakes were beginning to flutter down over the fields and woods, russet and gray in their...