“It's a fearful responsibility to have a child in your house you can't trust.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“It was not, of course, a proper thing to do. But then I have never pretended, nor will ever pretend, that Emily… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“hat's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“I'm glad I never had any children,' said Cousin Sarah. 'If they don't break your heart in one way they do it… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“As for Mr. Meredith," said Miss Cornelia, "even his engagement has made a different man of him. He isn't half so dreamy… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“We have come to a parting of the ways, I suppose", said Anne thoughtfully." we had to come to it, do you… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“I should have found out what was troubling her. But I've been too much taken up with other things this week .… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it? It was the old diamond disillusion of childhood… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“When people ask me that absurd question "Do you like children?" I always feel like retorting - and sometimes do, if I… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it. And they do not know… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“[...] I grew up out of that strange, dreamy childhood of mine and went into the world of reality. I met with… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“I would like to turn the Kaiser into a good man – a very good man – all at once if I… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Ain't it strange how innocent little creatures like children like the blood-thirstiest stories?” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“The other day Nan said, 'Nothing can ever be quite the same for any of us again.' It made me feel rebellious. Why shouldn't… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“I don't think it's any help that it's your habit. What would you think of a person who went about sticking pins and needles… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“What a splendid day! Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“I told you the Bible was more to be depended on than newspapers!” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“On a day like this there's no such word as fail in my bright lexicon.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“I took the brooch because I was too overcome with irresistible temptation. I was imagining I was Lady Cordelia Fitzgerald, and I just had… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“…she made a poem on it at once, the lines singing themselves through her consciousness without effort. With one side of her nature she… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“I think there are two kinds of TRUE THINGS-- true things that ARE, and true things that ARE NOT, but MIGHT be.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“when the darkness is close to us it is a friend. But when we sorter push it away from us—divorce ourselves from it, so… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
![“[...] 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…” quote by L.M. Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c02/l-m-montgomery-567_childhood_i-grew-up-out-of-that-strange-dreamy-chi_527875.jpg)
