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The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 1 Quotes
The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 1: 1889-1910
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“What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of criticism. The one essential thing I demand of a book is that it should interest me. If it does, I forgive it every other fault.”
― The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 1: 1889-1910
― The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 1: 1889-1910
“If any person wants to see clearly just how much she has changed - whether for better or worse - let her revisit after some lapse of time any place where she has ones lived. She will meet her former self at every turn, with every familiar face, in every old recollection ... She will see how much she has gained in some respects, how much she has lost - irretrievably lost - in others.”
― The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 1: 1889-1910
― The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 1: 1889-1910
“Do you know, that is a question I often ask myself—"If I could would I go back to my old self?" —and I can never answer it. I can never dare to say either "no" or "yes". The fruit of the tree of knowledge may leave a bitter taste in the eater's mouth, but there is something in its flavor that can never be forgotten or counterfeited.”
― The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 1: 1889-1910
― The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 1: 1889-1910
“I feel tired and lonely and discouraged. Patience, sad heart. There's eternity. This life is only a cloudy day in what may be a succession of varied lifes.”
― The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 1: 1889-1910
― The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 1: 1889-1910
“I have an ideal Sunday in my mind. Only, I am such a coward that I cannot translate it into the real, but must drift on with the current of conventionality.
But I would like to go away on Sunday morning to the heart of some great solemn wood and sit down among the ferns with only the companionship of the trees and the wood-winds echoing through the dim, moss-hung aisles like the strains of some vast cathedral anthem. And I would stay there for hours alone with nature and my own soul.”
― The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 1: 1889-1910
But I would like to go away on Sunday morning to the heart of some great solemn wood and sit down among the ferns with only the companionship of the trees and the wood-winds echoing through the dim, moss-hung aisles like the strains of some vast cathedral anthem. And I would stay there for hours alone with nature and my own soul.”
― The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 1: 1889-1910
