“You’ll get so tired of Blair Water — you’ll know all the people in it — what they are and can be… — 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
“You do love me, Gilbert? You haven’t said you loved me in so long." “My dear, I didn’t think you needed words… — L.M. Montgomery Love Copy Share Image
“An hour ago on the sand-shore he has been looking at her as if she were the only being of any importance… — L.M. Montgomery Heart Copy Share Image
“A proper Irishman always does what a lady asks him. Sure an' it's been the ruin av us. We're at the mercy… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Miss Barry, who was sitting behind them, leaned forward and poked Marilla in the back with her parasol.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“You don't know love when you see it. You've tricked something out with your imagination that you think love, and you expect… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“I doubted God last Sunday " said Rilla "but I don't doubt Him today. Evil cannot win. Spirit is on our side… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Oh, I like things to have handles even if they are only geraniums. It makes them seem more like people. How do… — L.M. Montgomery Time 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 Books Copy Share Image
“Charlotte had never forgotten it - she was always looking for it. An old house facing seaward, ships going up and down.… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“She felt vaguely upset and unsettled. She was suddenly tired of outworn dreams. And in the garden the petals of the last… — L.M. Montgomery Dreams Copy Share Image
“In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is… — L.M. Montgomery Dreams 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
“Mrs. Allan has a lovely smile; she has such EXQUISITE dimples in her cheeks. I wish I had dimples in my cheeks,… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Next to a mother she wanted a quiet place where she could be alone when she wanted to be; to listen to… — L.M. Montgomery Mother Copy Share Image
“Gilbert stretched himself out on the ferns beside the Bubble and looked approvingly at Anne. If Gilbert had been asked to describe… — L.M. Montgomery Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Miss Patty and Miss Maria are hardly such stuff as dreams are made of," laughed Anne. "Can you fancy them 'globe-trotting' --… — L.M. Montgomery Dreams 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 Children 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
“[...] I grew up out of that strange, dreamy childhood of mine and went into the world of reality. I met with… — L.M. Montgomery Childhood Copy Share Image
“She had died in her sleep, painlessly and calmly, and on her face was a smile- as if, after all, death had… — L.M. Montgomery Death Copy Share Image
“It must be admitted frankly that Aunt Becky was not particularly beloved by her clan. She was too fond of telling them… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Mr. James Reese's buckwheat stubble-land, with its beautiful tones of red and brown, a crow parliament was being held, whereat solemn deliberations… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“The whitewashed walls were so painfully bare and staring that she thought they must ache over their own bareness.” — L.M. Montgomery Heart Copy Share Image
“Well, I don't know," said the Story Girl thoughtfully. "I think there are two kinds of true thing - true things that… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“An old house that had lived its life long ago and so was very quiet and wise and a little mysterious. Also… — L.M. Montgomery Architecture Copy Share Image
“One forgets all through the year how lovely spring really is and so it comes as a surprise every time.” — L.M. Montgomery Flower Copy Share Image
“Truly, the happiness certain things give us is never to be measured by their worldly importance.” — L.M. Montgomery Happiness 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 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
“I don't like places or people either that haven't any faults. I think that a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting.” — L.M. Montgomery Idealistic 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
“Somehow, things never are so good when they're thought out a second time. Have you ever noticed that?” — L.M. Montgomery Good thought Copy Share Image
“[Ilse] was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain.” — L.M. Montgomery Heart Copy Share Image
“Bets seemed to die afresh every time there was something Pat wanted to share with her and could not.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“A woman cannot ever be sure of not being married till she is buried, Mrs. Doctor, dear, and meanwhile I will make… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Tact is a faculty for meandering around to a given point instead of making a bee-line.” — L.M. Montgomery Education Copy Share Image
“I am sure we should not shut our hearts against the healing influences that nature offers us.” — L.M. Montgomery Healing Copy Share Image
“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image