“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
“Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me glad to be… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Well, hope for your thrilling career - but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.' That's a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“The only thing she really enjoyed was a funeral. You knew where you were with a corpse. Nothing more could happen to… — 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
“She felt a wonderful lightness of spirit, a soul-stirring joy in mere existence.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Sure and ye’ve only got to live one day at a time, darlint. One can always be living just one more day.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“People who haven't natural gumption never learn," retorted Aunt Jamesina, "neither in college nor life. If they live to be a hundred… — 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
“Really, Nan could be very odious when she liked. Yet somehow she [Gay] didn't hate her as before. She felt very indifferent… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“One of the reviews says the book "radiates happiness and optimism". When I think of the conditions of worry and gloom and… — 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
“Anne had never seen Mrs. Merrill before and never saw her again, but she always remembered her as a woman who had… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“We make our own lives wherever we are, after all... They are broad or narrow according to what we put into them,… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“She told herself that she longed greatly to go back to those dear merry days when life was seen through a rosy… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with … making it stand in people's thoughts… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“At life's banquet of success I may not be the guest of honor, but I'll be among those present.” — 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
“Oh, Anne, things are so mixed-up in real life. They aren't clear-cut and trimmed off, as they are in novels.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Leslie, after her first anguish was over, found it possible to go on with life after all, as most of us do,… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Well, that was life. Gladness and pain... hope and fear... and change. Always change! You could not help it. You had to… — 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
