L.M. Montgomery

“…hate's got to be a disease with me.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“Grief is ever proud.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“It never rains but it pours”

— L.M. Montgomery

“…but youth yearned to youth.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“I fatti di tutti sono i fatti di nessuno.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“You can never tell about those Yankees!”

— L.M. Montgomery

“I love a book that makes me cry.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“I don't care a hang for any cat that hasn't stripes.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“We'll never say good-bye to each other. We'll just smile and go.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“The p'int of good writing is to know when to stop.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“Ah, well, let's not borrow trouble; the rate of interest is too high.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“I have made up my mind that I will never marry. I shall be wedded to my art.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“She could keep her silence, it was evident, as energetically as she could talk.”

— L.M. Montgomery

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

— L.M. Montgomery

“you'll find that trickery of the mind is just as potent as trickery of deed”

— L.M. Montgomery

“Oh, of course he's good, agreed Anne. But he doesn't seem to get any comfort out of it. If I could be…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Beyond those ten minutes there did not seem, just then, to be anything worth being called Time.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“Life may be a vale of tears, all right, but there are some folks who enjoy weeping, I reckon.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“when the darkness is close to us it is a friend. But when we sorter push it away from us—divorce ourselves from…

— L.M. Montgomery

“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

“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

“In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the gods see everywhere,”

— L.M. Montgomery

“Just imagine -- this night week I'll be in Avonlea -- delightful thought!" said Anne, bending over the box in which she…

— L.M. Montgomery

“She'd been real melancholy in the fall — religious melancholy — it ran in her family. Her father worried so much over…

— L.M. Montgomery

“I'm glad and I'm sorry. I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still more pleasant may come after, but you can…

— L.M. Montgomery

“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…

— L.M. Montgomery

“I do not know the difference between them, for the politics of the Yankees is a puzzle I cannot solve, study it…

— L.M. Montgomery

“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

“November is usually such a disagreeable month...as if the year had suddenly found out that she was growing old and could do…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Folks say I've never been quite right since - but they only say that because I'm a poet, and because nothing ever…

— L.M. Montgomery

“…she made a poem on it at once, the lines singing themselves through her consciousness without effort. With one side of her…

— L.M. Montgomery

“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

“They were all growing so fast. In just a few short years they would be all young men and women...youth tiptoe...expectant...a-star with…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Oh, Mr. Cuthbert," she whispered, that place we came through--that white place--what was it?" "Well now, you must mean the Avenue," said…

— L.M. Montgomery

“I hate to go mincing through life, afraid to take a single long step for fear somebody is watching. I want to…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Such presumption," said Aunt Laura, meaning for a Dix to aspire to a Murray. "It wasn't because of his presumption I packed…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Silence and twilight fell over the garden. Far away the sea was lapping gently and monotonously on the bar. The wind of…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Dear old Jane is a jewel,” agreed Anne, “but,” she added, leaning forward to bestow a tender pat on the plump, dimpled…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Isn't it a pity we can't have two husbands? One to look at and one to talk to.”

— L.M. Montgomery