L.M. Montgomery Quotes

True friends are always together in spirit. (Anne Shirley)

I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun rise and set in the usual quiet way without much fuss over the fact. If I had to have...

Ilse and I hunted all over the old orchard today for a four-leaved clover and couldn't find one. Then I found one in a clump of clover by the dairy steps tonight when I was straining the milk and neve...

Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!

I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.

It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em, said Captain Jim. When I ponder on them seeds I don't find it nowise hard to believe that we've got so...

It's lovely to be going home and know it's home. I love green gables already, and I've never loved any place before. Oh, Marilla, I'm so happy.

A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter.

If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't.

Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade.

I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla.'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's is like a red, red rose. Jane's is an apple blossom, pink and wholes...

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spi...

When will the others come?And there is one who will never come. At least we will not see him if he does. But, oh, when I think he will be there--when our Canadian soldiers return there will be a shado...

A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a s...

Oh, Gilbert, don't let's ever grow too old and wise... no, not too old and silly for fairyland.

She isn't like any of the girls I ever knew, or any of the girls I was myself.How many girls were you, Aunt Jimsie?About half a dozen, my dear.

Isn't it queer that the things we writhe over at night are seldom wicked things? Just humiliating ones.

…you'll be spared an awful lot of trouble if you die young.

I shall always end my stories happily. I don't care whether it's 'true to life' or not. It's true to life as it should be, and that's a better truth than the other.