Quotes by L.M. Montgomery

“The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.”

“He was so lonely that he laughed at himself.”

“Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade.”

“All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which...”

“Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers.”

“I have been reading three books Dean lent me this week. One was like a rose garden--very pleasant, but just a little too sweet. And one was like a pine wood on a mountain--full of balsam and tang--...”

“Jimmy Murray, you are an ass,' said Aunt Ruth, angrily.'Well, we're cousins,' agreed Cousin Jimmy pleasantly.”

“This afternoon I sat at my window and alternately wrote at my new serial and watched a couple of dear, amusing, youngish maple-trees at the foot of the garden. They whispered secrets to each other ...”

“It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.”

“Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own.”