Lucy Maud Montgomery

Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

What a spineless thing I must be not to have one enemy!

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“You never can tell what you can do till you try.”

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

All things great are wound up with all things little.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Maples are such sociable trees ... They're always rustling and whispering to you.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“When a man don't know his own mind, Miss Shirley, ma'am, how's a poor woman going to be sure of it?”

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

I love bright red drinks, don’t you? They taste twice as good as any other color.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Wouldn't it be nice if roses could talk? I'm sure they could tell us such lovely things.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“At sunset the little soul that had come with the dawning went away, leaving heartbreak behind it”

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world can’t make…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

But [sorrows] won't get the better of you if you face 'em together with love and trust. You can weather any storm…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“My future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road... Now there is a bend in it. I don't know…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Jane's stories are extremely sensible. Then Diana puts too many murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“I have only known you for a few months but I cannot realize that there was ever a time when I did…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild,…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“When she came to the end of one life it must not be to face the next with the shrinking terror of…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

I'm so glad my window looks east into the sunrising- It's so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Miss Barry was a kindred spirit after all," Anne confided to Marilla, "You wouldn't think so to look at her, but she…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

You never know what peace is until you walk on the shores or in the fields or along the winding red roads…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Without shedding of blood there is no anything… Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by self-sacrifice. Our race has…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Comedy and tragedy are so mixed up in life, Gilbert. The only thing that haunts me is that tale of the two…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Hark, I hear a robin calling! List, the wind is from the south! And the orchard-bloom is falling Sweet as kisses on…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Mrs. Allan's face was not the face of the girlbride whom the minister had brought to Avonlea five years before. It had…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

All that Ruby said was so horribly true, she was leaving everything she cared for. She had laid up her treasures on…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Keep that red-haired girl of yours in the open air all summer and don't let her read books until she gets more…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I lay me down to sleep."…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery