The Works of L.M. Montgomery Quotes

“No. I don’t think I’ve ever been really lonely in my life,” answered Anne. “Even when I’m alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I LIKE to be alone now and then, just to think over things and TASTE them.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Works of L.M. Montgomery

“We both belong to the race that knows Joseph, as Cornelia Bryant would say.” “The race that knows Joseph?” puzzled Anne. “Yes. Cornelia divides all the folks in the world into two kinds — the race that knows Joseph and the race that don’t. If a person sorter sees eye to eye with you, and has pretty much the same ideas about things, and the same taste in jokes — why, then he belongs to the race that knows Joseph.” “Oh, I understand,” exclaimed Anne, light breaking in upon her. “It’s what I used to call — and still call in quotation marks ‘kindred spirits.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Works of L.M. Montgomery

“She was an excellent target for teasing because she always took things so seriously.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Works of L.M. Montgomery

“Still Anne said nothing, several times over.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Works of L.M. Montgomery

“Have you ever noticed how many different silences there are, Gilbert? The silence of the woods . . . of the shore . . . of the meadows . . . of the night . . . of the summer afternoon. All different because all the undertones that thread them are different. I’m sure if I were totally blind and insensitive to heat and cold I could easily tell just where I was by the quality of the silence about me.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Works of L.M. Montgomery

“But it’s a million times nicer to be Anne of Green Gables than Anne of nowhere in particular, isn’t it?”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Works of L.M. Montgomery

“For the next fortnight Anne writhed or reveled, according to mood, in her literary pursuits. Now she would be jubilant over a brilliant idea, now despairing because some contrary character would NOT behave properly.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Works of L.M. Montgomery

“I’d like to add some beauty to life,” said Anne dreamily. “I don’t exactly want to make people KNOW more . . . though I know that IS the noblest ambition . . . but I’d love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me . . . to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn’t been born.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Works of L.M. Montgomery

“Jo has given me a splendid rule. He says, when I’m perplexed, just to do what I would wish I had done when I shall be eighty.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Works of L.M. Montgomery

“That good night in the garden was for all time.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Works of L.M. Montgomery

“When she came to the end of one life it must not be to face the next with the shrinking terror of something wholly different — something for which accustomed thought and ideal and aspiration had unfitted her. The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Works of L.M. Montgomery

“those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths, and that the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Works of L.M. Montgomery

“I think, if ever any great sorrow came to me, I would come to the pines for comfort,” said Anne dreamily.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Works of L.M. Montgomery

“A very good epitaph,” commented Anne thoughtfully. “I wouldn’t wish a better. We are all servants of some sort, and if the fact that we are faithful can be truthfully inscribed on our tombstones nothing more need be added.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Works of L.M. Montgomery

“A — a what kind of friend?” “A bosom friend — an intimate friend, you know — a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul. I’ve dreamed of meeting her all my life. I”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Works of L.M. Montgomery

“But would you believe it? I couldn’t remember one word when I woke up this morning. And I’m afraid I’ll never be able to think out another one as good. Somehow, things never are so good when they’re thought out a second time. Have you ever noticed that?”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Works of L.M. Montgomery

“It was nearly as long as a minister’s and so poetical.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Works of L.M. Montgomery

“I thought out a splendid prayer after I went to bed,”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Works of L.M. Montgomery

“I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial,” said Anne, rather scornfully. “Nobody would expect two blacksmiths to be violently attracted toward each other merely because they were both blacksmiths.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Works of L.M. Montgomery

“Anne,” said Leslie, breaking abruptly a short silence, “you don’t know how GOOD it is to be sitting here with you again — working — and talking — and being silent together.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Works of L.M. Montgomery

“don’t let’s ever be afraid of things. It’s such dreadful slavery. Let’s be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let’s dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Works of L.M. Montgomery

“Seems to me you must always have been afraid to be young. It takes courage, I can tell you that,”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Works of L.M. Montgomery

“There’s all the difference in the world, you know, between being inside looking out and outside looking in.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Works of L.M. Montgomery

“Freedom!’ Mrs. Lynde sniffed. ‘Freedom! Don’t talk like a Yankee, Anne.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Works of L.M. Montgomery

“splendid to think of all the things there are to find out”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Works of L.M. Montgomery

“I’m so different,” sighed Hazel. It was really dreadful to be so different from other people . . . and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star. Hazel would not have been one of the common herd for anything . . . no matter what she suffered by reason of her differentness.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Works of L.M. Montgomery