L.M. Montgomery Quotes

Yet still the Piper piped and the dance of death went on.

You couldn’t really expect a person to pray very well the first time she tried, could you?

You do love me, Gilbert? You haven’t said you loved me in so long.My dear, I didn’t think you needed words to know that. I can’t live without you.

You don't chatter half as much as you used to, Anne, nor use half as many big words. What has come over you? Anne coloured and laughed a little, as she dropped her book and looked dreamily out of the...

You don't know love when you see it. You've tricked something out with your imagination that you think love, and you expect the real thing to look like that.

You have the whole world at your doorstep here, said John Meredith, with a long breath. What a view—what an outlook! At times I feel stifled down there in the Glen. You can breathe up here. It

You know if we've got anything about us that hurts we shrink from anyone's touch on or near it. It holds good with our souls as well as our bodies, I reckon. Leslie's soul must be near raw - it's no w...

You've been four of the dearest, sweetest, goodest girls who ever went together through college,' averred Aunt Jamesina, who never spoiled a compliment by misplaced economy.

You’ll just pamper Anne’s vanity, Matthew, and she’s as vain as a peacock now.

[She] may be an acquired taste with some folks; but I didn't keep on eating bananas because I was told I'd learn to like them if I did.

[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.

[speaking of a friend named Lavendar Lewis] 'I think her parents gave her the only right and fitting name that could possibly be given her,' said Anne. 'If they had been so blind as to name her Elizab...

Almost seemed to her that those secret, unuttered, critical thoughts had suddenly taken visible and accusing shape and form in the person of this outspoken morsel of neglected humanity.

Ancient handmaiden. The door opened directly

And Jerry and I—round and round the world. Listen— listen—can't you hear his wild music? The girls shivered. You know you're only pretending, protested Mary Vance, and I wish you wouldn't. You make

And grim and faithful handmaiden of the Blythe family at Ingleside, never lost an opportunity of calling her Mrs. Marshall Elliott, with

And over the river in purple durance the echoes bided there time.

And the unfortunate Matthew was left to do that which was harder for him than bearding a lion in its den—walk up to a girl—a strange girl—an orphan girl—and demand of her why she wasn’t a boy.

But it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by a happiness that is not your own.

Can never get used to the way you mention the—the—that name, complained Felicity. To hear you speak of the Old Scratch any one would think he was just a common person.