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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 532829f | Changes come all the time. Just as soon as things get really nice they change," she said with a sigh." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 2450750 | Mrs. Rachel felt that she had received a severe mental jolt. She thought in exclamation points. A boy! Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert of all people adopting a boy! From an orphan asylum! Well, the world was certainly turning upside down! She would be surprised at nothing after this! Nothing! | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 69faed7 | There's never anybody to be had but those stupid, half-grown little French boys; and as soon as you do get one broke into your ways and taught something he's up and off to the lobster canneries or the States. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 02e97d2 | They can laugh when things go wrong. I like that. Anyone can laugh when it's all smooth sailing. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 4d786ef | Cornelia's comfortable, matronly figure was making its way towards the village of Glen St. Mary. Miss Cornelia was rightfully Mrs. Marshall Elliott, and had been Mrs. Marshall Elliott for thirteen years, but even yet more people referred to her as Miss Cornelia than as Mrs. Elliott. The old name was dear to her old friends, only one of them contemptuously dropped it. Susan Baker, the gray and grim and faithful handmaiden of the Blythe famil.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 9fffd1f | triumphant general. I'd give EVERYTHING to see a big battle." Well, Jem was to be a soldier and see a greater battle" | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| b2c51cf | and the Anne Shirley of other days saw her coming, as they sat on the big veranda at Ingleside, enjoying the charm of the cat's light, the sweetness of sleepy robins whistling among the twilit maples, and the dance of a gusty group of daffodils blowing against the old, mellow, red brick wall of the lawn. Anne was sitting on the steps, her hands clasped over her knee, looking, in the kind | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| a0aa5b5 | Yet still the Piper piped and the dance of death went on. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 7f54cd6 | A -- a what kind of friend?" "A bosom friend -- an intimate friend, you know -- a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul. I've dreamed of meeting her all my life. I" | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 8b63a08 | It is not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| b594118 | Escribiria sobre gente y lugares que yo conociera, y haria que mis personajes hablaran un lenguaje cotidiano. Y dejaria que el sol se levantara y se pusiera de la forma normal y tranquila que hace normalmente, sin hacer muchas alharacas al respecto. Si tuviera que introducir un villano en mi historia, le daria una oportunidad (...) Supongo que hay algunos hombres malvados en el mundo, pero hay que andar un buen rato para encontrarlos. | ana-la-de-tejas-verdes anne-of-green-gables anne-of-the-island villains writing writing-inspiration | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 484ad73 | Now, Anne Shirley, for pity's sake don't fly up into the air." The warning seemed not unnecessary, so uplifted and aerial was Anne's expression and attitude as she sprang to her feet, her face irradiated with the flame of her spirit." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 13f0cd6 | In the misfortunes of our best friends, we always find something not unpleasing. | André Maurois | ||
| 41c06b3 | She felt very old and mature and wise--which showed how young she was. She told herself that she longed greatly to go back to those dear merry days when life was seen through a rosy mist of hope and illusion, and possessed an indefinable something that had passed away forever. Where was it now--the glory and the dream? | childhood dreams wisdom | L.M. Montgomery | |
| 9bb902f | The lines and verses are only the outward garments of the poem and are no more really it than your ruffles and flounces are YOU, | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| e909770 | Mrs. Lynde may be an acquired taste with some folks; but I didn't keep on eating bananas because I was told I'd learn to like them if I did, | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 4dd3dd0 | How life grew around the changes until they became part of it and were changes no more. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 554f09a | How can I be vain when I know I'm homely?" protested Anne. "I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful--just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 88f3606 | If we never have any adventures we'll have nothing to remember when we get old. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 4f54477 | Even Billy Andrews' boy is going--and Jane's only son--and Diana's little Jack," said Mrs. Blythe. "Priscilla's son has gone from Japan and Stella's from Vancouver--and both the Rev. Jo's boys. Philippa writes that her boys 'went right away, not being afflicted with her indecision." -- | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 67ebb5c | Once upon a time--which, when you come to think of it, is really the only proper way to begin a story--the only way that really smacks of romance and fairyland-- | fairy-tale l-m-montgomery magic storytelling | L.M. Montgomery | |
| e092ddb | Those who knew Anne best felt, without realizing that they felt it, that her greatest attraction was the aura of possibility surrounding her... the power of future development that was in her. She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen. As | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 5c763f9 | Marilla is eighty-five," said Anne with a sigh. "Her hair is snow-white. But, strange to say, her eyesight is better than it was when she was sixty." | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 4538115 | See--there is a great golden palace over there in the sunset," said Walter, pointing. "Look at the shining tower--and the crimson banners streaming from them. Perhaps a conqueror is riding home from battle--and they are hanging them out to do honour to him." "Oh, I wish we had the old days back again," exclaimed Jem. "I'd love to be a soldier--a great, triumphant general. I'd give EVERYTHING to see a big battle." Well, Jem was to be a soldi.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| f7fb80e | I want to know... not just believe... that the world is round. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 8718818 | Nobody is ever to old to dream. And dreams never grow old. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 3b35411 | On the evening after Mrs. Myra Murray of the over-harbour section had been buried Miss Cornelia and Mary Vance came up to Ingleside. There were several things concerning which Miss Cornelia wished to unburden her soul. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| c064024 | And they shall fight against thee but they shall not prevail against thee, for I am with thee, saith the Lord of Hosts, to deliver thee. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 1768763 | feel that she possesses a rich nature, into which a friend might enter as into a kingdom; but for some reason she bars every one out and shuts all her possibilities up in herself, so that they cannot develop and blossom. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| f0e06a7 | if I wasn't ME who'd I be? | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| cd83b00 | Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 0ba7cd5 | I won't be reasonable--I can't be reasonable--I AM reasonable. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 00dcc4f | Jane was smiling and happy; examinations were over and she was comfortably sure she had made a pass at least; further considerations troubled Jane not at all; she had no soaring ambitions and consequently was not affected with the unrest attendant thereon. For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial,.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 3e18435 | wouldn't it have been more beautiful still, Anne, if there had been NO separation or misunderstanding . . . if they had come hand in hand all the way through life, with no memories behind them but those which belonged to each other? | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 45e7850 | It really was dreadful to be so different from other people... and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were being strayed from another star. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 7654c44 | There's a kind of failure that's the best success | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| ba257ab | In two more years I'll be really grown up. It's a great comfort to think that I'll be able to use big words then without being laughed at." "Ruby" | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| b0a7cd9 | The joy of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams. And there was always the bend in the road! "'God's in his heaven, all's right with the world,'" whispered Anne softly. " | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 04a80af | You lose so much out of life by being cynical | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 453f900 | Pliny the Elder explained how the "milk" of the tithymalus plant could be used as an invisible ink. Although the ink is transparent after drying, gentle heating chars it and turns it brown. Many organic fluids behave in a similar way, because they are rich in carbon and therefore char easily." | Simon Singh | ||
| 86bfcf5 | monstrosities of tall "monuments" and draped urns. One of the latter, the biggest and ugliest in the graveyard, was sacred to the memory of a certain Alec Davis who had been born a Methodist but had taken to himself a Presbyterian bride of the Douglas clan. She had made him turn Presbyterian and kept him toeing the Presbyterian mark all his life. But when he died she did not dare to doom him to a lonely grave in the Presbyterian graveyard o.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 7aa35c8 | wrung were yet fair little maidens a-star with hopes and dreams. Slowly the banners of the sunset city gave up their crimson and gold; slowly the conqueror's pageant faded out. 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 dreami.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| 5b522e6 | thank you--but--but--I think I'd rather go right back and take the letter to father," faltered Una. "You see, he'll be glad that much SOONER, Miss West." "I see," said Rosemary. She went to the house, wrote a note and gave it to Una. When that small damsel had run off, a palpitating bundle of happiness, Rosemary went to Ellen, who was shelling peas on the back porch. "Ellen," she said, "Una Meredith has just been here to ask me to marry her.. | L.M. Montgomery | ||
| a79a657 | come in and I heard what he was saying. I'll tell you, Miss West, if you'll let me whisper it in your ear." Una whispered earnestly. Rosemary's face turned crimson. So John Meredith still cared. HE hadn't changed his mind. And he must care intensely if he had said that--care more than she had ever supposed he did. She sat still for a moment, stroking Una's hair. Then she said, "Will you take a little letter from me to your father, Una?" "Oh.. | L.M. Montgomery |