L M Montgomery Quotes

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Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
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L.M. Montgomery
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I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)
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Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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True friends are always together in spirit.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2))
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Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.
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L.M. Montgomery
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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?
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2))
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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
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L.M. Montgomery (The Story Girl (The Story Girl, #1))
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There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it... yet.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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Anne laughed. "I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3))
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Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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It was November--the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland alleys in the park and, as she said, let that great sweeping wind blow the fogs out of her soul.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2))
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I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.
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L.M. Montgomery
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Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the skyβ€”upβ€”upβ€”upβ€”into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.
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L.M. Montgomery
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That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3))
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All life lessons are not learned at college,' she thought. 'Life teaches them everywhere.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3))
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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 and you need not waste time in trying.
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L.M. Montgomery (The Blue Castle)
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I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3))
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One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2))
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I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3))
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The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5))
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The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.
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L.M. Montgomery (Rilla of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables, #8))
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It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)
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I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3))
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I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5))
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But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3))
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I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3))
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Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3))
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You were never poor as long as you had something to love.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, #4))
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…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2))
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When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.
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L.M. Montgomery
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That is one good thing about this world...there are always sure to be more springs.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2))
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There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.
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L.M. Montgomery (Rilla of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables, #8))
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It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen ... wonderful things.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables S.))
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Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, #4))
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Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.
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L.M. Montgomery (Emily's Quest (Emily, #3))
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Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.
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L.M. Montgomery (Chronicles of Avonlea (Chronicles of Avonlea, #1))
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You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair.
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L.M. Montgomery
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Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)
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Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3))
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Red hair is my life long sorrow.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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You see," she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.
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L.M. Montgomery (Emily's Quest (Emily, #3))
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The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only β€” a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5))
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Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2))
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Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3))
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Anne: "But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice". Marilla: "I don't know as that's much benefit when you're always making new ones".
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, #4))
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Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3))
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There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it. And they do not know that it is fairyland until they have grown so old that they forget the way. One bitter day, when they seek it and cannot find it, they realize what they have lost; and that is the tragedy of life. On that day the gates of Eden are shut behind them and the age of gold is over. Henceforth they must dwell in the common light of common day. Only a few, who remain children at heart, can ever find that fair, lost path again; and blessed are they above mortals. They, and only they, can bring us tidings from that dear country where we once sojourned and from which we must evermore be exiles. The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and story-tellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.
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L.M. Montgomery (The Story Girl (The Story Girl, #1))
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I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2))
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I've come home in love with loneliness
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2))
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I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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We ought always to try to influence others for good.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)
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The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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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 have -- for at every reading the memories and atmosphere of other readings come back and I am reading old years as well as an old book.
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L.M. Montgomery (The Selected Journals Of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 3: 1921-1929)
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God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?
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L.M. Montgomery (Emily's Quest (Emily, #3))
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For a moment Anne's heart fluttered queerly and for the first time her eyes faltered under Gilbert's gaze and a rosy flush stained the paleness of her face. It was as if a veil that had hung before her inner consciousness had been lifted, giving to her view a revelation of unsuspected feelings and realities. Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps. . . perhaps. . .love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2))
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Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.
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L.M. Montgomery (The Blue Castle)
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She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2))
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But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about?
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, #4))
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I love a book that makes me cry.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.
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L.M. Montgomery (The Selected Journals Of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 3: 1921-1929)
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…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2))
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If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.
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L.M. Montgomery (Emily of New Moon (Emily, #1))
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I can't cheer up β€” I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2))
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The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.
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L.M. Montgomery (The Story Girl (The Story Girl, #1))
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She makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble making myself love them
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer β€” one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going β€” one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5))
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I have a dream," he said slowly. "I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends -- and you!
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3))
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Jane's stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them." -Anne Shirley
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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Even when I'm alone I have real good company β€” dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships β€” and nice, jolly little times with people.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5))
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Well now, I'd rather have you than a dozen boys, Anne,' said Matthew patting her hand. 'Just mind you that β€” rather than a dozen boys. Well now, I guess it wasn't a boy that took the Avery scholarship, was it? It was a girl β€” my girl β€” my girl that I'm proud of.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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...Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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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 spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, #4))
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...β€œOh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne. β€œYou mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, β€˜Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.’ But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.”...
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1))
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In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faΓ«ry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3))
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Yes, it's beautiful,' said Gilbert, looking steadily down into Anne's uplifted face, 'but wouldn't it have been more beautiful still, Anne, if there had been no separation or misunderstanding . . . if they had come hand in hand all the way through life, with no memories behind them but those which belonged to each other?
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L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2))
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[...] I grew up out of that strange, dreamy childhood of mine and went into the world of reality. I met with experiences that bruised my spirit - but they never harmed my ideal world. That was always mine to retreat into at will. I learned that that world and the real world clashed hopelessly and irreconcilably; and I learned to keep them apart so that the former might remain for me unspoiled. I learned to meet other people on their own ground since there seemed to be no meeting place on mine. I learned to hide the thoughts and dreams and fancies that had no place in the strife and clash of the market place. I found that it was useless to look for kindred souls in the multitude; one might stumble on such here and there, but as a rule it seemed to me that the majority of people lived for the things of time and sense alone and could not understand my other life. So I piped and danced to other people's piping - and held fast to my own soul as best I could.
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L.M. Montgomery (My Dear Mr. M: Letters to G.B. Macmillan from L.M. Montgomery)