Ali > Ali's Quotes

“I think people make their names nice or ugly just by what they are themselves.[…]
[…] Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn’t beautiful to begin with-masking it stand in people’s thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself.”
― 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 possibilities of making new friends help to make life very fascinating. But no matter how many friends I make they’ll never be as dear to me as the old ones.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“Nobody cared anything for me or wanted to be bothered with me. I should have been miserable if it hadn’t been for that stange little dream-life of mine, wherein I imagined all the friends and love I craved. But when I came to Green Gables everything was changed. And then I met you. You don’t know what your friendship meant to me. I want to thank you here and now, dear, for the warm and true affection you’ve always given me.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“Oh, sometimes I think it is no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after a while and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“For two years she had worked earnestly and faithfully, making many mistakes and learning from them. She had had her reward. She had taught her scholars something, but she felt that they had taught her much more-lessons of tenderness, self-control, innocent wisdom, lore of childish hearts.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is 'you're safe with me'- that's intimacy.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Don't ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box. Don't do that.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“...if you are going to insist on losing faith in someone the moment you see the slightest possibility that they have wronged you, you are going to have a very frustrating life.”
― Martha Waters, To Have and to Hoax