Quotes by L.M. Montgomery

“I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…”

“Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.”

“…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.”

“Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships — and nice,...”

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

“That is one good thing about this world…there are always sure to be more springs.”

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

“Lovely thoughts came flying to meet me like birds. They weren't my thoughts. I couldn't think anything half so exquisite. They came from somewhere.”

“Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.”

“I can always get through to-day very nicely. It's to-morrow I can't live through”

“Don't let a three-o'clock-at-night feeling fog your soul.”

“…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.”

“I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen in halls of fancy.”

“I don’t want to talk as much,’ she said, denting her chin thoughtfully with her forefinger. ‘It’s nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one’s heart, like treasures.”

“[Ilse] was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain.”

“Fear is the original sin,” suddenly said a still, small voice away back—back—back of Valancy’s consciousness. “Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of...”

“Since ever the world was spinningAnd till the world shall endYou've your man in the beginningOr you have him in the end,But to have him from start to finishAnd neither nor borrow nor lendIs what al...”

“A woman who has a sense of humor possesses no refuge from the merciless truth about herself. She cannot think herself misunderstood. She cannot revel in self-pity. She cannot comfortably damn any o...”

“I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.”

“We always hate people who surprise our secrets…”