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“If it had not rained on a certain May morning Valancy Stirling's whole life would have been entirely different. She would have gone, with the rest of her clan, to Aunt Wellington's engagement picnic and Dr. Trent would have gone to Montreal. But it did rain and you shall hear what happened to her because of it.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“I will not be bullied or dictated to. I’m not a child any more, and I’m prepared to make my own way and my own mistakes if necessary.”
― Rhys Bowen, The Victory Garden

“We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“When he said good evening you felt that it was a good evening and that it was partly his doing that it was.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“She had always envied the wind. So free. Blowing where it listed. Through the hills. Over the lakes. What a tang, what a zip it had! What a magic of adventure!”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“I like a man whose eyes say more than his lips," thought Valancy.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“It was so easy to defy once you got started. The first step was the only one that really counted.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Do you think it’s odd, the way I’ve just switched off? She was supposed to be my best buddy!’ ‘I think you’re hurt and your trust has been tampered with and you’re doing what you have to do to cope.”
― Belinda Jones, Summer in Greece: Love Travel Series

“it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars

“It is a pity to gather wood-flowers. They lose half their witchery away from the green and the flicker. The way to enjoy wood-flowers is to track them down to their remote haunts—gloat over them—and then leave them with backward glances, taking with us only the beguiling memory of their grace and fragrance.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“Thus, we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

“Just to love! She did not ask to be loved. It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“Good-evening, Miss Stirling."
Nothing could be more commonplace and conventional.
Any one might have said it. But Barney Snaith had a way of saying things that gave them poignancy. When he said good-evening you felt that it was a good evening and it was partly his doing that it was. Also, you felt that some of the credit was yours.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“It is not every day one sees a soul-even of a poem”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Be the day short or be the day long, at last it weareth to evening song.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars

“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“Love you! Girl, you're in the very core of my heart. I hold you there like a jewel. Didn't I promise you I'd never tell you a lie? Love you! I love you with all there is of me to love. Heart, soul, brain. Every fibre of body and spirit thrilling to the sweetness of you. There's nobody in the world for me but you, Valancy.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“Rebellion flamed up in her soul as the dark hours passed by – not because she had no future but because she had no past.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“There is no such thing as freedom on earth," he said. "Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“The greatest happiness [...] is to sneeze when you want to.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“But now she loved winter. Winter was beautiful "up back" - almost intolerably beautiful. Days of clear brilliance. Evenings that were like cups of glamour - the purest vintage of winter's wine. Nights with their fire of stars. Cold, exquisite winter sunrises. Lovely ferns of ice all over the windows of the Blue Castle. Moonlight on birches in a silver thaw. Ragged shadows on windy evenings - torn, twisted, fantastic shadows. Great silences, austere and searching. Jewelled, barbaric hills. The sun suddenly breaking through grey clouds over long, white Mistawis. Ice-grey twilights, broken by snow-squalls, when their cosy living-room, with its goblins of firelight and inscrutable cats, seemed cosier than ever. Every hour brought a new revalation and wonder.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“Despair is a free man—hope is a slave.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“The trouble with you people is that you don't laugh enough.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle