Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Tell me this--if you knew you would be poor as a church mouse all your life--if you knew you'd never have a…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

It was October again ... a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the valleys were filled with delicate…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

What is it really like to be engaged?" asked Anne curiously. "Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to," answered Diana,…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Hark, I hear a robin calling! List, the wind is from the south! And the orchard-bloom is falling Sweet as kisses on…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild,…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“In this life you've got to hope for the best, prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.”

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“You 're not eating anything,” said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. “I can 't.…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

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

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

I am well in body although considerable rumpled up in spirit.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Why, I've never even had a quarrel with any one. I haven't an enemy. What a spineless thing I must be not…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

brains last, beauty doesn't.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“When a man don't know his own mind, Miss Shirley, ma'am, how's a poor woman going to be sure of it?”

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Comedy and tragedy are so mixed up in life, Gilbert. The only thing that haunts me is that tale of the two…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery