L.M. Montgomery

“She has no serious ideals at all-her sole aspiration seems to be to have a good time.”

“Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!”

“All life lessons are not learned at college,' she thought. 'Life teaches them everywhere.”

“Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert her”

“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”

“You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.”

“And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.”

“Perhaps she had not succeeded in 'inspiring' any wonderful ambitions in her pupils, but she had taught them, more by her own sweet personality than by all her careful precepts, that it was good and necessary in the years that were before them to live their lives finely and graciously, holding fast to truth and courtesy and kindness, keeping aloof from all that savoured of falsehood and meanness and vulgarity. They were, perhaps, all unconscious of having learned such lessons; but they would remember and practice them long after they had forgotten the capital of Afghanistan and the dates of the Wars of the Roses.”

“One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.”

“Tears don't hurt like the ache does.”

“For there is no bond more lasting than that formed bythe mutual confidences of that magic time when youth is slipping fromthe sheath of childhood and beginning to wonder what lies for it beyondthose misty hills that bound the golden road.”

“You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.”

“But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'.”

“Aunt Ruth looked at the unlucky pair."What are you doing here?" she asked Perry.Stovepipe Town made a mistake."Oh, looking for a round square," said Perry off-handedly, his eyes suddenly becoming limpid with mischief and lawless roguery.”

“When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.”

“Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?”

“I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.”

“People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't.”

“My pen shall heal, not hurt.”

“Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.”

“I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.”

“Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.”

“You were never poor as long as you had something to love.”

“I came to the conclusion, Marilla, that I wasn't born for city life and that I was glad of it. It's nice to be eating ice cream at brilliant restaurants at eleven o'clock at night once in a while; but as a regular thing I'd rather be in east gable at eleven, sound asleep, but kind of knowing even in my sleep that the stars were shining outside and the wind was blowing in the firs across the brook.”

“I took the brooch because I was too overcome with irresistible temptation. I was imagining I was Lady Cordelia Fitzgerald, and I just had to wear the brooch over the footbridge of the Lake of Shining Waters, with the wind blowing my auburn hair over to Camelot. I thought I could put it back before you came home, but as I leaned over to look at my reflection in the lake, it slipped from my fingers and sank beneath the rippling waves. That's the best I can do at confessing. Now may I go to the picnic?”

“Anne Shirley. Anne with an "e.”

“Diana: "I wish I were rich, and I could spend the whole summer at a hotel, eating ice cream and chicken salad."Anne: "You know something, Diana? We are rich. We have sixteen years to our credit, and we both have wonderful imaginations. We should be as happy as queens."[gestures to the setting sun]Anne Shirley: "Look at that. You couldn't enjoy its loveliness more if you had ropes of diamonds.”

“[Anne, commenting on city life] "I think I would probably come to the conclusion that I'd like it for a while... but in the end, I'd still prefer the sound of the wind in the firs across the brook more than the tinkling of crystal.”

“I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.”

“The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.”

“Since you are determined to be married, Miss Cornelia," said Gilbert solemnly, "I shall give you the excellent rules for the management of a husband which my grandmother gave my mother when she married my father.""Well, I reckon I can manage Marshall Elliott," said Miss Cornelia placidly. "But let us hear your rules.""The first one is, catch him.""He's caught. Go on.""The second one is, feed him well.""With enough pie. What next?""The third and fourth are-- keep your eye on him.”

“There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.”

“Anne had no sooner uttered the phrase, "home o'dreams," than it captivated her fancy and she immediately began the erection of one of her own. It was, of course, tenanted by an ideal master, dark, proud, and melancholy; but oddly enough, Gilbert Blythe persisted in hanging about too, helping her arrange pictures, lay out gardens, and accomplish sundry other tasks which a proud and melancholy hero evidently considered beneath his dignity. Anne tried to banish Gilbert's image from her castle in Spain but, somehow, he went on being there, so Anne, being in a hurry, gave up the attempt and pursued her aerial architecture with such success that her "home o'dreams" was built and furnished before Diana spoke again. ”

“Desire grows by what it feeds on.”

“Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.”

“At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on.”

“Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.”

“Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.”

“I've come home in love with loneliness”

“Anne "felt instinctively" that romance was peeping at her around a corner.”

“All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.”

“If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery”

“Karena hal-hal yang dapat dilihat dapat berakhir, tetapi hal-hal yang tidak terlihat tetap abadi. -Anne-”

“God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly.”

“Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”

“When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I am going to believe that the best does. It has a fascination of its own, that bend, Marilla. I wonder how the road beyond it goes - what there is of green glory and soft, checkered light and shadows - what new landscapes - what new beauties - what curves and hills and valleys farther on.”

“She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend - as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.”

“Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.”

“I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.”

“Don't you ever imagine things differently than what they are? Oh, Marilla, how much you miss.”