Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

“She was a woman, full of love and therefore rich and significant--”
― L.M. Montgomery, Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up?" queried Valancy. "Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery

“I've been trying to please other people all my life and failed," she said. "After this I shall please myself. I shall never pretend anything again. I've breathed an atmosphere of fibs and pretences and evasions all my life. What a luxury it will be to tell the truth! I may not be able to do much that I want to do but I won't do another thing that I don't want to do. Mother can pout for weeks--I shan't worry over it. 'Despair is a free man--hope is a slave.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery

“wonder if those of us who have lived half our lives in the old world will ever feel wholly at home in the new.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery

“ninth.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery

“fifth.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Sterling”
― L.M. Montgomery, Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery

“One would not drink of the cup of forgetfulness if one could.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Tempest had made up his mind on considered opinion to shoot himself that night. He had nearly done it the night before, but he had reflected that he might as well wait till after the levee. He wanted, as a mere matter of curiosity, to see who got the old Dark jug. Winnifred had liked that jug. He knew he had no chance of it himself. Aunt Becky had no use for a bankrupt. He was bankrupt and the wife he had adored had died a few weeks previously. He couldn't see any sense in living on. But just at this moment he was enjoying himself.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery

“She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I lay me down to sleep." But she had, as I have told you, the glimmerings of a sense of humor—which is simply another name for a sense of fitness of things; and it suddenly occurred to her that that simple little prayer, sacred to white-robed childhood lisping at motherly knees, was entirely unsuited to this freckled witch of a girl who knew and cared nothing about God's love, since she had never had it translated to her through the medium of human love.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery

“But play the game of life according to the rules.  You might as well, because you can't cheat life in the end.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery