L.M. Montgomery Quotes

I wouldn't marry anyone who was really wicked. But I think I'd like it if he could be wicked, and wouldn't.

I would like to turn the Kaiser into a good man – a very good man – all at once if I could. That is what I would do. Don't you think, Mrs. Blythe, that would be the very worstest punishment of all?Ble...

I wonder if it will be—can be—any more beautiful than this,’ murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptured eyes of those to whom ‘home’ must always be the loveliest spot in the world,...

I said I thought I liked Dean's idea of a succession of lives - I can't make out from him whether he really believes that or not - and Ilse said that might be all very well if you were sure of being b...

I never in all my life saw or heard anything to equal her, muttered Marilla, beating a retreat down to the cellar after potatoes. She is kind of interesting as Matthew says. I can feel already that I’...

I mostly always have to tell them what to write about, but that isn't hard for I've millions of ideas.

I love to smell flowers in the dark, she said. You get hold of their soul then.

I know they'll take their knitting with them everywhere. They simply couldn't be parted from it. They will walk about Westminster Abbey and knit, I feel sure.

I hope you don't think I'm one of those terrible people who make you feel that you have to talk to them all the time.

I hope some one will always need me, said Anne to Dusty Miller. And it’s wonderful, Dusty Miller, to be able to give happiness to somebody.

I heard someone once say that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

I have been reading three books Dean lent me this week. One was like a rose garden--very pleasant, but just a little too sweet. And one was like a pine wood on a mountain--full of balsam and tang--I l...

I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn't be I — as if I must have changed into somebody else and couldn't get used to it. It gives...

I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no new book can ever ha...

I don't really care what people think about me if they don't let me see it.

I don't know yet. I want to get hold of a good plot. I believe this is very necessary from an editor's point of view. The only thing I've settled on is the heroine's name. It is to be AVERIL LESTER. R...

I believe you! Miss Ellen nodded. Mark my words, Mr. Meredith, that man is going to fight somebody yet. He's ACHING to. He is going to set the world on fire. If

I am rather interested in Millicent Drew's case myself. I never had a beau, much less two, and I do not mind now, for being an old maid does not hurt when you get used to it. Millicent's hair always l...

I am afraid to speak or move for the fear all this wonderful beauty will vanish just like a broken silence

How do you like my picture, Phil? It seems a very dull one, said Phil, with a grimace. Oh, but I've left out the transforming thing, said Anne softly. There'll be love there, Phil—faithful, tender lov...