“…could not have understood what perverted shaped thwarted love can take.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“How sympathetic you look, Anne…as sympathetic as only seventeen can look.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“I hope you don't think I'm one of those terrible people who make you feel that you have to talk to them… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Isn't it queer that the things we writhe over at night are seldom wicked things? Just humiliating ones.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“…I'm afraid Katherine likes me so much now that she can't always like me as much…” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“...And every day in heaven will be more beautiful than the one before it Davy," assured Anne.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“We... Charlotta the Fourth and I... live in defiance of every known law of diet." ~ Miss Lavendar, chap 27” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Life may be a vale of tears, all right, but there are some folks who enjoy weeping, I reckon.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“There's always a piece of unfinished work left,' said Mrs. Lynde, with tears in her eyes. 'But I supposed there's always some… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“It isn't fair she should have everything and I nothing. She isn't better or cleverer or much prettier than me…only luckier.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it was nothing very dreadful after all. I think the little things in life often make more trouble than the big… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry…and I think it's… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“The eastern sky above the firs was flushed faintly pink from the reflection of the west, and Anne was wondering dreamily if… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“…and he wasn't reconciled to dying. Dora told him he was going to a better world. "Mebbe, mebbe," says poor Ben, "but… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“I don't believe Old Nick can be so very ugly,' said Aunt Jamesina reflectively. 'He wouldn't do so much harm if he… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“But the trouble is there aren't any bends in my road. I can see it stretching straight out before me to the… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“After Davy had gone to bed Anne wandered down to Victoria Island and sat there alone, curtained with fine-spun, moonlit gloom, while… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“I guess you've got a spice of temper," commented Mr. Harrison, surveying the flushed cheeks and indignant eyes opposite him. "It goes… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“The dark hills, with the darker spruces marching over them, looked grim on early falling nights, but Ingleside bloomed with firelight and… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Do you know, Mrs. Allan, I'm thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much." "True friendship is a very helpful thing indeed,"… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up,' laughed Anne. 'That's a true word, dearie. Some are grown up… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Anne looked at the white young mother with a certain awe that had never entered into her feelings for Diana before. Could… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Of course we have a Tomorrow on the map…located east of Today and west of Yesterday…and we have no end of "times"… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“It's about Diana,' sobbed Anne luxuriously. 'I love Diana so, Marilla. I cannot ever live without her. But I know very well… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Oh, here we are at the bridge. I'm going to shut my eyes tight. I’m always afraid going over bridges. I can't… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Strange, ain't it, how folks seem to resent anyone being born a mite cleverer than they be.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Some are born old maids, some achieve old maidenhood, and some have old maidenhood thrust upon them ," parodied Miss Lavendar whimsically.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid you'll find out all too soon that life's a melancholy business.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Spencer said that my tongue must be hung in the middle. But it isn't — it's firmly fastened at one end.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Heaven must be very beautiful, of course, the Bible says so — but, Anne, it won't be what I've been used to.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Nothing seems worthwhile. My very thoughts are old. I've thought them all before. What is the use of living after all, Anne?” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“But maybe everything'll go all right. In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Mr. Harrison was certainly different from other people…and that is the essential characteristic of a crank, as everybody knows.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Or she may find out what is at the end of the harbor road…that wandering, twisting road like a nice red snake,… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Lynde says Mrs. Wrights grandfather stole a sheep but Marilla says we mustent speak ill of the dead. Why mustent we,… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“The Woman had told her that Tomorrow never comes, but Elizabeth knows better. It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will… — 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
