Quotes by Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.”

“We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”

“Worrying helps you some. It seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.”

“As a rule I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.”

“We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.”

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

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”

“As a rule I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.”

“She found, however, that revenge hurts nobody quite so much as the one who tries to inflict it.”

“But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.”

“What a comfort one familiar face is in a howling wilderness of strangers!”

“Why did you kill Maurice Lennox? she asked reproachfully.”

“He was the villain, protested Anne. He had to be punished. I like him best of them all, said unreasonable Diana. Well, he's dead, and he'll have to stay dead, said Anne, rather resentfully. If I ha...”

“I wouldn't give up altogether, said Mr. Harrison reflectively. I'd write a story once in a while, but I wouldn't pester editors with it. I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my ...”

“But she lay long awake that night, nor did she wish for sleep. Her waking fancies were more alluring than any vision of dreamland. Had the real Prince come at last? Recalling those glorious dark ey...”

“And Gilbert was dying!”

“There is a book of Revelation in everyone's life, as there is in the Bible. Anne read hers that bitter night, as she kept her agonized vigil through the hours of the storm and and darkness. She lov...”

“Gilbert was friendly—very friendly—far too friendly....But Anne no longer found it satisfying. The rose of love made the blossom of friendship pale and scentless by contrast.”

“Anne, do you know, I believe I shall always love you after this. I don't think I'll ever feel that dreadful way about you again. Talking it all out seems to have done away with it, somehow. It's ve...”

“A slender shapely young aspen rose up before them against the fine maize and emerald and paling rose of the western sky, which brought out every leaf and twig in dark, tremulous, elfin loveliness.”