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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b473eeb | Nothing good about this but it's title. A priggish little yarn. And Hidden Riches is not a story--it's a machine. It creaks. It never made me forget for one instant that it was a story. Hence it isn't a story. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 312639c | The lesson of a love that should display itself easily in spoken word and open look was one Marilla could never learn. But she had learned to love this slim, gray-eyed girl with an affection all the deeper and stronger from its very undemonstrativeness. Her love made her afraid of being unduly indulgent, indeed. She had an uneasy feeling that it was rather sinful to set one's heart so intensely on any human creature as she had set hers on A.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 116c325 | There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 77aaa42 | you'll find that trickery of the mind is just as potent as trickery of deed | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| febda25 | Chippy, pulling his hand from Rilla's. Rilla | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 80f8c44 | Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty, Our hard, stiff lines of life with her | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| d979270 | Ilse] was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain. | indignation loss-of-faith religion-on-trial suffering | L.M. Montgomery | |
| ab98a3f | Some sounds are so exquisite - far more exquisite than anything seen. Daff's purr there on my rug, for instance - and the snap and crackle of the fire - and the squeaks and scrambles of mice that are having a jamboree behind the wainscot. | blind blindness purring sound sounds | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 0da5b56 | Jimmy Murray, you are an ass,' said Aunt Ruth, angrily. 'Well, we're cousins,' agreed Cousin Jimmy pleasantly. | humor relations snipe wit | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 6b49e12 | After Davy had gone to bed Anne wandered down to Victoria Island and sat there alone, curtained with fine-spun, moonlit gloom, while the water laughed around her in a duet of brook and wind. Anne had always loved that brook. Many a dream had she spun over its sparkling water in days gone by. She forgot lovelorn youths, and the cayenne speeches of malicious neighbors, and all the problems of her girlish existence. In imagination she sailed o.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 1678ff0 | It has been a prosy day for us," she said thoughtfully, "but to some people it has been a wonderful day. Some one has been rapturously happy in it. Perhaps a great deed has been done somewhere today-- or a great poem written-- or a great man born." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 3d6e51a | I have got acquainted with Lofty John. Ilse is a great friend of his and often goes there to watch him working in his carpenter shop. He says he has made enough ladders to get to heaven without the priest but that is just his joke. | heaven stairway-to-heaven | L.M. Montgomery | |
| f45ebdb | Folks say I'm good," he remarked whimsically upon one occasion, "but I sometimes wish the Lord had made me only half as good and put the rest of it into looks. But there, I reckon He knew what He was about, as a good Captain should. Some of us have to be homely, or the purty ones--like Mistress Blythe here--wouldn't show up so well." -- | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 504a2ac | Oh, of course there's a resk in marrying anybody," conceded Charlotta the Fourth, "but, when all's said and done, Miss Shirley, ma'am, there's many a worse thing than a husband." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 8d344b4 | They were all growing so fast. In just a few short years they would be all young men and women...youth tiptoe...expectant...a-star with its sweet wild dreams...little ships sailing out of safe harbor to unknown ports. The boys would go away to their life work and the girls...ah, the mist-veiled forms of beautiful brides might be seen coming down the old stairs at Ingleside. But they would still be hers for a few years yet...hers to love and.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 8030a68 | And there was always the bend in the road! | inspirational life-lessons | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 844878f | Anne sewed and planned little winter wardrobes..."Nan must have a red dress, since she is so set on it"...and sometimes thought of Hannah, weaving her little coat every year for the small Samuel. Mothers were the same all through the centuries...a great sisterhood of love and service...the remembered and the unremembered alike." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 5ada291 | but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by a happiness that is not your own. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 427d733 | I should have found out what was troubling her. But I've been too much taken up with other things this week . . . things that really mattered nothing compared to a child's unhappiness. Think of what the poor darling has suffered." She stooped repentantly, gloatingly over them. They were still hers . . . wholly hers, to mother and love and protect. They still came to her with every love and grief of their little hearts. For a few years longe.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| b5bdec3 | If I had my way I'd shut everything out of your life but happiness and pleasure, Anne," said Gilbert in the tone that meant "danger ahead." "Then" | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 5c319e6 | Did she think ginger cookies a substitute for impassioned longings and mad, wild, glamorous adventures? | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 9a0d95d | How those girls enjoyed putting their nest in order! As Phil said, it was almost as good as getting married. You had the fun of homemaking without the bother of a husband. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 83ddc4f | Soul-ache doesn't worry folks near as much as stomach-ache. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 4194b60 | open brow and his fearless eyes. There were thousands like him all over the land of the maple. "Let the Piper" | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| e7ec7ec | We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 0e6293f | That is one consolation when you are poor--there are so many more things you can imagine about. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 108e699 | But the way girls roam over the earth now is something terrible. It always makes me think of Satan in the Book of Job, going to and fro and walking up and down. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| bc1ff14 | Oh," she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up--and marry--and change!" | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 5da8dd0 | Oh, no, you did not, Mrs. Dr. dear," said loyal Susan, determined to protect Anne from herself." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| dd7a3cb | Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne. "You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them." -- | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 5c01ac3 | Well, Jem was to be a soldier and see a greater battle than had ever been fought in the world; but that was as yet far in the future; and the mother, whose first-born son he was, was wont to look on her boys and thank God that the "brave days of old," which Jem longed for, were gone for ever, and that never would it be necessary for the sons of Canada to ride forth to battle "for the ashes of their fathers and the temples of their gods." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| eda1a4c | It is hard to understand why work should be called a curse--until one remembers what bitterness forced or uncongenial labour is. But the work for which we are fitted--which we feel we are sent into the world to do--what a blessing it is and what fullness of joy it holds. | labour work | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 8c2ad04 | Peter was going to die--to DIE. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 0eaa631 | That is what we're fighting for. And we shall win--never for a moment doubt that, Rilla. For it isn't only the living who are fighting--the dead are fighting too. Such an army cannot be defeated. "Is there laughter in your face yet, Rilla? I hope so. The world will need laughter and courage more than ever in the years that will come next. I don't want to preach--this isn't any time for it. But I just want to say something that may help you .. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 27fe3f3 | help me most. I know you'll be as plucky and patient as you have shown yourself to be this past year--I'm not afraid for you. I know that no matter what happens, you'll be Rilla-my-Rilla--no matter what happens." Rilla repressed" | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 112497d | She'd been real melancholy in the fall -- religious melancholy -- it ran in her family. Her father worried so much over believing that he had committed the unpardonable sin that he died in the asylum. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 079968b | And I have such a cold in the head--I can do nothing but sniffle, sigh and sneeze. Isn't that alliterative agony for you? | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 39f411a | I didn't really remember that the sea was so blue and the roads so red and the wood nooks so wild and fairy haunted. Yes, the fairies still abide here. I vow I could find scores of them under the violets in Rainbow Valley. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| b22bcf1 | No matter what dreadful things happened at least there were still cats in the world. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 6591ac1 | I don't seem to be like other girls, Judy. They all want to go to college and have a career. I don't...I just want to stay at Silver Bush and help you and mother. There's work for me here, Judy...you know there is. Mother isn't strong. As for being educated...I shall be well educated...love educates, Judy. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 37edacc | Fear is the original sin," wrote John Foster. "Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 2d2468e | They had a sort of talent for happiness. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| fa3e9a9 | everything is foreordained and it was bound to happen anyway. But even so, it's nice to think one was an instrument used by predestination. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 070331a | I've always thought nobody understood me quite as well as I understood myself. | L.M. Montgomery |