Anne of Green Gables Collection Quotes

“Her advice is much like pepper, I think . . . excellent in small quantities but rather scorching in her doses.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Collection

“In the mornings I always think the mornings are best; but when evening comes I think it's lovelier still”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Collection

“A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Collection

“I reckon when the darkness is close to us it is a friend. But when we sorter push it away from us—divorce ourselves from it, so to speak, with lantern light—it becomes an enemy.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Stories

“I don't think there is much fear of your dying of grief as long as you can talk, Anne," said Marilla unsympathetically.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Collection

“I'd write a story once in a while, but I wouldn't pester editors with it. I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun rise and set in the usual quiet way without much fuss over the fact. If I had to have villains at all, I'd give them a chance, Anne—I'd give them a chance. There are some terrible bad men in the world, I suppose, but you'd have to go a long piece to find them—though Mrs. Lynde believes we're all bad. But most of us have got a little decency somewhere in us. Keep on writing,”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Collection

“that special Providence which looks after simple-minded old souls in their dangerous excursions into the world,”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Collection

“Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Collection

“one sin demands another to cover it.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Collection

“How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view,”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Collection

“But we can't have things perfect in this imperfect world, as Mrs. Lynde says. Mrs. Lynde isn't exactly a comforting person sometimes, but there's no doubt she says a great many very true things.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Collection

“We make our own lives wherever we are, after all .”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Greatest Hits of L.M. Montgomery