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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a47fe00 | I ought to grow up successfully, and I'm sure it will be my own fault if I don't. I feel it's a great responsibility because I have only one chance. If I don't grow up right I can't go back and begin over again. - Anne Shirley | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 6815d4e | Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them. You mayn't get the things themselves but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. - Anne Shirley | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| db63687 | Emily," whispered Teddy, "you're the sweetest girl in the world." The words have been said so often by so many millions of lads to so many millions of lasses, that they ought to be worn to tatters. But when you hear them for the first time, in some magic hour of your teens, they are as new and fresh and wondrous as if they had just drifted over the hedges of Eden. Madam, whoever you are, and however old you are, be honest, and admit that th.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 85a98c6 | Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| d4e1df6 | Yes; but cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good, | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 4c78bb8 | wonder if Mr. Alec Davis would come back and ha'nt me if I threw a stone at the urn on top of his tombstone," said Jerry. "Mrs. Davis would," giggled Faith. "She just watches us in church like a cat watching mice. Last Sunday I made a face at her nephew and he made one back at me and you should have seen her glare. I'll bet she boxed HIS ears when they got out. Mrs. Marshall Elliott told me we mustn't offend her on any account or I'd have m.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 479ddf1 | How quiet the woods are today... not a murmur except that soft wind putting in the treetops! It sounds like surf on a faraway shore. How dear the woods are! You beautiful trees! I love every one of you as a friend! | tree | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 79b626d | When you know things you have to go by facts. But when you just dream things there's nothing to hold you down. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 19288c6 | Everything that's worth having is some trouble - Anne Shirley | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 429891a | Anne looked up. Tall and handsome and distinguished-looking--dark, melancholy, inscrutable eyes--melting, musical, sympathetic voice--yes, the very hero of her dreams stood before her in the flesh. He could not have more closely resembled her ideal if he | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| e3bb003 | She dropped miserably on the first chair she came to and sat there staring through the oriel, oblivious of Good Luck's frantic purrs of joy and Banjo's savage glares of protest at her occupancy of his chair. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 5c587ca | God is in heaven, all's right with the world - Anne Shirley | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 56dffd0 | it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 4589052 | People who have to look after twins can't be expected to say their prayers. Now, do you honestly think they can? | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| ddc527f | Now, my name just smacks of bread and butter, patchwork and chores." "Oh, I don't think so," said Diana. "Anne seems to me real stately and like a queen. But I'd like Kerrenhappuch if it happened to be your name. I think people make their names nice or ugly just by what they are themselves. I can't bear Josie or Gertie for names now but before I knew the Pye girls I thought them real pretty." "That's a lovely idea, Diana," said Anne enthusi.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 49a51de | But I don't want to be a different girl," said Emily decidedly. She had no intention of lowering the Starr flag to Aunt Ruth. "I wouldn't want to be anybody but myself even if I am plain. Besides," she added impressively as she turned to go out of the room, "though I may not be very good-looking now, when I go to heaven I believe I'll be very beautiful." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| e1fc060 | I'm afraid Katherine likes me so much now that she can't always like me as much... | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 38f4aa7 | It's no wonder we can't understand the grown-ups," said the Story Girl indignantly, "because we've never been grown-up ourselves. But THEY have been children, and I don't see why they can't understand us." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 074475c | Yet he may have committed what might be considered far greater sins that yet would not inflict on any one a tithe of the humiliation which his teasing inflicted on a child's sensitive mind. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| ae0d953 | Twilight crept over the valley and the little group grew silent. Walter had been reading again that day in his beloved book of myths and he remembered how he had once fancied the Pied Piper coming down the valley on an evening just like this. He began to speak dreamily, partly because he wanted to thrill his companions a little, partly because something apart from him seemed to be speaking through his lips. "The Piper is coming nearer," he .. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 82bea22 | one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one? | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 0b5c6b1 | The tinkles of sleigh bells among the snowy hills came like elfin chimes through the frosty air, but their music was not sweeter than the song in Anne's heart and on her lips. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 5442241 | I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want you... We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each other--and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| d537e26 | Well, all I hope," said Miss Cornelia calmly, "is that when I'm dead nobody will call me 'our departed sister." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| d053f88 | Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 752351b | Oh, I think some parts of it are fine," conceded Davy. "That story about Joseph now--it's bully. But if I'd been Joseph Iwouldn't have forgive the brothers. No, siree, Anne. I'd have cut all their heads off." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 322b5fb | On Monday I received a letter from Golden Days, a Philadelphia juvenile, accepting a short story I had sent there and enclosing a cheque for five dollars. It was the first money my pen had ever earned; I did not squander it in riotous living, neither did I invest it in necessary boots and gloves. I went up town and bought five volumes of poetry with it -- Tennyson, Byron, Milton, Longfellow, Whittier. I wanted something I could keep for eve.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 529d11d | It might be a nice world if nobody ever said a disagreeable thing, but it would be a dangerous one, | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 4564682 | 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 | ||
| 6904042 | Never mind Phil and the violets just now, Anne," said Gilbert quietly, taking her hand in a clasp from which she could not free it. "There is something I want to say to you." "Oh, don't say it," cried Anne, pleadingly. "Don't--PLEASE, Gilbert." "I must. Things can't go on like this any longer. Anne, I love you. You know I do. I--I can't tell you how much. Will you promise me that some day you'll be my wife?" "I--I can't," said Anne miserabl.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| dce28c3 | I am of one mind with the Irishman who said you could get used to anything, even to being hanged! | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| ea1d34a | and the unfortunate Matthew was left to do that which was harder for him than bearding a lion in its den--walk up to a girl--a strange girl--an orphan girl--and demand of her why she wasn't a boy. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| cec43b2 | Its wonderful to have ambition. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 9d88afd | One could have eaten a meal off the ground without overbrimming the proverbial peck of dirt. Mrs. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 7dacdbd | I'm not in the depths of despair this morning. I never can be in the morning. Isn't it a splendid thing that there are mornings? | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 30ab127 | get out on the rocks or the fields or the water and spout them." Captain Jim had come up that afternoon to bring Anne a load of shells for her garden, and a little bunch of sweet-grass which he had found in a ramble over the sand dunes. "It's getting real scarce along this shore now," he said. "When I was a boy there was a-plenty of it. But now it's only once in a while you'll find a plot--and never when you're looking for it. You jest have.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 90982cd | She had died in her sleep, painlessly and calmly, and on her face was a smile- as if, after all, death had come as a kindly friend to lead her over the threshold, instead of the grisly phantom she had dreaded...Anne, looking down through a mist of tears, at her old playfellow, thought she saw the face of God had meant Ruby to have, and remembered it so always. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 93c08bd | The whitewashed walls were so painfully bare and staring that she thought they must ache over their own bareness. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 32a6555 | Influence other people for good. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| c01f49b | No, I've neither wife nor progeny, Miss Plum. I've often tried to get married, but something always prevented. Sometimes everyone was willing but the girl herself. Sometimes nobody was willing. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| fce1b3f | Miss Cornelia dropped in that afternoon, puffing a little. "I don't mind the world or the devil much, but the flesh does rather bother me," she admitted. "You always look as cool as a cucumber, Anne, dearie. Do I smell cherry pie? If I do, ask me to stay to tea..." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 8f6fd0a | But you like to cry over stories?" "Oh, yes, in the middle of them. But I like everything to come right at last." "I must have one pathetic scene in it," said Anne thoughtfully. "I might let ROBERT RAY be injured in an accident and have a death scene." "No, you mustn't kill BOBBY off," declared Diana, laughing. "He belongs to me and I want him to live and flourish. Kill somebody else if you have to." For" | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 452ff31 | One forgets all through the year how lovely spring really is and so it comes as a surprise every time. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 0fcd094 | You couldn't really expect a person to pray very well the first time she tried, could you? | L.M. Montgomery |