L M Montgomery Quotes

“That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“That is one good thing about this world...there are always sure to be more springs.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams

“Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars

“Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“Well now, I'd rather have you than a dozen boys, Anne,' said Matthew patting her hand. 'Just mind you that — rather than a dozen boys. Well now, I guess it wasn't a boy that took the Avery scholarship, was it? It was a girl — my girl — my girl that I'm proud of.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars

“I'm just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“I am well in body although considerably rumpled up in spirit, thank you, ma'am,' said Anne gravely. Then aside to Marilla in an audible whisper, 'There wasn't anything startling in that, was there, Marilla?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“Oh, but there's such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it,' wailed Anne. 'You may know a thing is so, but you can't help hoping other people don't quite think it is.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet,' said Priscilla.
Anne glowed.
'I'm so glad you spoke that thought, Priscilla, instead of just thinking it and keeping it to yourself. This world would be a much more interesting place…although it is very interesting, anyhow…if people spoke out their real thoughts.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I’m going out to collect it…”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars

“It's about Diana,' sobbed Anne luxuriously. 'I love Diana so, Marilla. I cannot ever live without her. But I know very well when we grow up that Diana will get married and go away and leave me. And oh, what shall I do? I hate her husband — I just hate him furiously. I've been imagining it all out — the wedding and everything — Diana dressed in snowy white garments, and a veil, and looking as beautiful and regal as a queen; and me the bridesmaid, with a lovely dress, too, and puffed sleeves, but with a breaking heart hid beneath my smiling face. And then bidding Diana good-bye-e-e—' Here Anne broke down entirely and wept with increasing bitterness. Marilla turned quickly away to hide her twitching face, but it was no use; she collapsed on the nearest chair and burst into such a hearty and unusual peal of laughter…”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars

“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 discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“Anne, are you killed?' shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. 'Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I don't really care what people think about me if they don't let me see it.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“Oh, here we are at the bridge. I'm going to shut my eyes tight. I’m always afraid going over bridges. I can't help imagining that perhaps, just as we get to the middle, they'll crumple up like a jackknife and nip us. So I shut my eyes. But I always have to open them for all when I think we're getting near the middle. Because, you see, if the bridge did crumple up I'd want to see it crumple. What a jolly rumble it makes! I always like the rumble part of it. Isn't it splendid there are so many things to like in this world? There, we're over. Now I'll look back. Good night, dear Lake of Shining Waters. I always say good night to the things I love, just as I would to people. I think they like it. That water looks as if it was smiling at me.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables