Quotes by L.M. Montgomery

“Despair is a free manhope isa slave.”

“True friends are always together in spirit. (Anne Shirley)”

“When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.”

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

“Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.”

“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, j...”

“Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful”

“I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn't be I as if I must have changed into somebody else and couldn't get used to it. It giv...”

“We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word; and I hope it will always be so. But things can't be quite the same after this. You'll have...”

“I'm afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life.”

“Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.”

“People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.”

“It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night.”

“The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.”

“Before this war is over,' [Walter] said - or something said through his lips - 'every man and woman and child in Canada will feel it - you, Mary, will feel it - feel it to your heart's core. You wi...”

“The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?”

“...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.”

“When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding.”

“You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.”

“She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she di...”