L.M. Montgomery Quotes

Whenever we think of anything thatis a trial to us we should also think of somethingnice that we can set over against it.

World; but that was as yet far in the future; and the mother, whose first-born son he was, was wont to look on her boys and thank God that the brave days of old, which Jem longed for, were gone for ev...

You know what Lowell says, 'Not failure but low aim is crime.' We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With

Eh, alta speranta spulberata. Viata mea este un cimitir al sperantelor spulberate. Este o propozitie pe care am citit-o intr-o carte candva si mi-o repet de carte ori simt nevoia sa-mi ridic moralul,...

It doesn't hurt to love if you do not hope to be loved in return.I've never hoped to be loved in return--but it hurts damnably, said Roger.

As time went on and autumn passed and winter came with its beautiful bare-limbed trees, and soft pearl-grey skies the were slashed with rifts of gold in the afternoons, and cleared to a jewelled pagea...

A Good Imagination Gone Wrong

A body can get used to anything, even to being hanged, as the Irishman said.

A week later Mrs. Blythe, coming up from the village late in the afternoon, paused at the gate of Ingleside in an amazement which temporarily bereft her of the power of motion. An extraordinary sight...

Above all she wanted to make him speak. She felt instinctively that nothing in the world would punish him so much as to be tricked into speaking when he was determined not to. Suppose she got up and d...

After all, it was nice to be loved than to be rich and admired and famous.

Ain't it strange how innocent little creatures like children like the blood-thirstiest stories?

All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, i...

All life lessons are not learned at college, she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.

An hour ago on the sand-shore he has been looking at her as if she were the only being of any importance in the world. And now she was a nobody.

And anyhow I’d always be too tired at night to bother saying prayers. People who have to look after twins can’t be expected to say their prayers. Now,

And it seemed to me, too, that I've always been afraid when I was in the company of people…afraid of saying something stupid…afraid of being laughed at.

And people laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

And so, said Miss Cornelia, the double wedding is to be sometime about the middle of this month. There was a faint chill in the air of the early September evening, so Anne had lighted her ever ready f...