Jane of Lantern Hill Quotes

“Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert her”
― L.M. Montgomery, Jane of Lantern Hill

“It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Jane of Lantern Hill

“Let's sum up... a little house, white and green or to be made so... with trees, preferably birch and spruce... a window looking seaward... on a hill. That sounds very possible... but there is one other requirement. There must be magic about it, Jane... lashings of magic... and magic houses are scarce, even on the Island. Have you any idea at all what I mean, Jane?"

Jane reflected.

"You want to feel that the house is yours before you buy it," she said.

"Jane," said dad, "you are too good to be true.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Jane of Lantern Hill

“Let me remind you that the measure of anyone's freedom is what he can do without.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Jane of Lantern Hill

“Can I help you?" said Jane.
Though Jane herself had no inkling of it, those words were the keynote of her character. Any one else would probably have said, "What is the matter?" But Jane always wanted to help: and, though she was too young to realize it, the tragedy of her little existence was that nobody ever wanted her help.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Jane of Lantern Hill

“Grandmother's voice was ice. "They do not. Your mother has been happy all these years, till you began stirring up old memories. Leave her alone. She is my daughter... no outsider shall ever come between us again... neither Andrew Stuart nor you nor anyone. And you will be good enough to remember that.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Jane of Lantern Hill

“Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” The most terrible and tremendous saying in the world, Jane… because we are all afraid of truth and afraid of freedom… that’s why we murdered Jesus.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Jane of Lantern Hill

“Oh, dad,” cried this happiest of all Janes, “I know the very house.” “You would,” said dad.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Jane of Lantern Hill

“There is no pleasure in life like the joy of achievement.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Jane of Lantern Hill

“Having left Toronto on the morning train, they were in Charlottetown by mid-afternoon. Jane saw dad the moment she stepped off the train . . . grinning and saying, “Excuse me, but your face seems familiar. Are you by any chance . . .” but Jane had hurled herself at him. They had never been parted . . . she had never been away at all. The”
― L.M. Montgomery, Jane of Lantern Hill

“It was nice to live where you could show how capable you were. This was her own world and she was a person of importance in it. There was a joy in her heart the clock round.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Jane of Lantern Hill

“But soon history no longer seemed a clutter of dates and names in some dim, cold antiquity but became a storied road of time when dad told her old tales of wonder and the pride of kings. When he told the simplest incident with the sound of the sea in his voice, it seemed to take on such a colouring of romance and mystery that Jane knew she could never forget it. Thebes . . . Babylon . . . Tyre . . . Athens . . . Galilee . . . were places where real folks lived . . . folks she knew. And, knowing them, it was easy to be interested in everything pertaining to them.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Jane of Lantern Hill

“I think," said Jane decidedly, "that I should apologise to God.”
― L.M. Montgomery, JANE OF LANTERN HILL

“Jane did not like Phyllis. Sometimes Jane thought drearily that there must be something the matter with her when there were so many people she didn't like.”
― L.M. Montgomery, JANE OF LANTERN HILL

“Let me remind you that the measure of any one’s freedom is what he can do without.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Jane of Lantern Hill