The Alpine Path Quotes

“I am grateful that my childhood was spent in a spot where there were many trees, trees of personality, planted and tended by hands long dead, bound up with everything of joy or sorrow that visited our lives. When I have "lived with" a tree for many years it seems to me like a beloved human companion.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career

“Many people have told me that they regretted Matthew's death in Green Gables. I regret it myself. If I had the book to write over again I would spare Matthew for several years. But when I wrote it I thought he must die, that there might be a necessity for self-sacrifice on Anne's part, so poor Matthew joined the long procession of ghosts that haunt my literary past.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career

“The kind of juvenile story I like best to write -- and read, too, for the matter of that -- is a good, jolly one, "art for art's sake," or rather "fun for fun's sake," with no insidious moral hidden away in it like a pill in a spoonful of jam!”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career

“We must follow our "airy voices," follow them through bitter suffering and discouragement and darkness, through doubt and disbelief, through valleys of humiliation and over delectable hills where sweet things would lure us from our quest, ever and always must we follow, if we would reach the "far-off divine event" and look out thence to the aerial spires of our City of Fulfilment.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career

“I wrote it for love, not money, but very often such books are the most successful, just as everything in the world that is born of true love has life in it, as nothing constructed for mercenary ends can ever have.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career

“We would reach the "far-off divine event" and look out thence to the aerial spires of our City of Fulfillment.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career

“The Alpine path, so hard, so steep, That leads to heights sublime.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career