Emily Climbs Quotes

“My pen shall heal, not hurt.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“Well, it all comes to this; there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in your own. After all, I believe in myself. I'm not so bad and silly as they think me, and I'm not consumptive, and I can write. Now that I've written it all out I feel differently about it. The only thing that still aggravates me is that Miss Potter pitied me -- pitied by a Potter!”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain hidden deep in Emily’s nature—the strain of the gypsy and the poet, the genius and the fool.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“I've a pocket full of dreams to sell," said Teddy, whimsically,... "What d'ye lack? What d'ye lack? A dream of success--a dream of adventure--a dream of the sea--a dream of the woodland--any kind of a dream you want at reasonable prices, including one or two unique little nightmares. What will you give me for a dream?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“The world is always young again for just a few moments at the dawn.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“It was a lovely afternoon - such an afternoon as only September can produce when summer has stolen back for one more day of dream and glamour.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“I have made up my mind that I will never marry. I shall be wedded to my art.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“It was not, of course, a proper thing to do. But then I have never pretended, nor will ever pretend, that Emily was a proper child. Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull nobody would read them.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“I have been reading three books Dean lent me this week. One was like a rose garden--very pleasant, but just a little too sweet. And one was like a pine wood on a mountain--full of balsam and tang--I loved it, and yet it filled me with a sort of despair. It was written so beautifully--I can never write like that, I feel sure. And one--it was just like a pig-sty. Dean gave me that one by mistake.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“The boys like me as a pal but I don't believe anyone will ever really fall in love with me."

"Nonsense," said Emily reassuringly. "Nine out of ten men will fall in love with you."

"But it will be the tenth I'll want," persisted Ilse gloomily.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“Lovely thoughts came flying to meet me like birds. They weren't my thoughts. I couldn't think anything half so exquisite. They came from somewhere.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“Don't let them make anything of you but yourself, that's all.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“I hate to go mincing through life, afraid to take a single long step for fear somebody is watching. I want to "wave my wild tail and walk by my wild lone." There wasn't a bit of real harm in my opening that window and talking to Perry. There wasn't even any harm in his trying to kiss me. He just did it to tease me. Oh, I hate conventions. As you say, hang consequences.'

'But we can't hang 'em, Pussy - that's just the trouble. They're more likely to hang us.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“A woman who has a sense of humor possesses no refuge from the merciless truth about herself. She cannot think herself misunderstood. She cannot revel in self-pity. She cannot comfortably damn any one who differs from her.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“Any human companionship, even the dearest and most perfect, would have been alien to her then. She was sufficient unto herself, needing not love nor comradeship nor any human emotion to round out her felicity. Such moments come rarely in any life, but when they do come they are inexpressibly wonderful - as if the finite were for a second infinity - as if humanity were for a space uplifted into divinity - as if all ugliness had vanished, leaving only flawless beauty.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“Emily," whispered Teddy, "you're the sweetest girl in the world."

The words have been said so often by so many millions of lads to so many millions of lasses, that they ought to be worn to tatters. But when you hear them for the first time, in some magic hour of your teens, they are as new and fresh and wondrous as if they had just drifted over the hedges of Eden. Madam, whoever you are, and however old you are, be honest, and admit that the first time you heard those words on the lips of some shy sweetheart, was the great moment of your life.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

“Cousin Jimmy thinks I did perfectly right. Cousin Jimmy would think I had done perfectly right if I had murdered Andrew and buried him in the Land of Uprightness. It's very nice to have one friend like that, though too many wouldn't be good for you.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs