50 Inspiring L.M. Montgomery Quotes

Lucy Maud Montgomery, the beloved Canadian author, has captured the hearts of readers around the world with her timeless stories and unforgettable characters. Best known for her iconic "Anne of Green Gables" series, Montgomery's works are infused with warmth, wisdom, and a deep appreciation for the beauty and complexity of life. Her quotes resonate across generations, offering inspiration, comfort, and insight. In this blog post, we present a carefully curated collection of the top 50 inspiring L.M. Montgomery quotes that continue to uplift and encourage. Whether you're a long-time fan or new to her writings, these quotes are sure to leave a lasting impression. Join us on this delightful literary journey and rediscover the magic of L.M. Montgomery's words.

1. “And he wrote, "When the moon rises tonight think of me and I'll think of you.” - L.M.Montgomery

2. “Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously…” - L.M. Montgomery

3. “But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress — because when you are imagining you might as well imagine something worth while…” - L.M. Montgomery

4. “Mrs. Spencer said that my tongue must be hung in the middle. But it isn't — it's firmly fastened at one end.” - L.M. Montgomery

5. “Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!” - L.M. Montgomery

6. “Oh, we're very careful, Marilla. And it's so interesting. Two flashes means, "Are you there?" Three means "yes" and four "no." Five means, "Come over as soon as possible, because I have something important to reveal." Diana has just signalled five flashes, and I'm really suffering to know what it is.” - L.M. Montgomery

7. “That's one splendid thing about such affairs — it's so lovely to look back to them.” - L.M. Montgomery

8. “I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.” - L.M. Montgomery

9. “…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.” - L.M. Montgomery

10. “There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.” - L.M. Montgomery

11. “If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet,' said Priscilla.Anne glowed.'I'm so glad you spoke that thought, Priscilla, instead of just thinking it and keeping it to yourself. This world would be a much more interesting place…although it is very interesting, anyhow…if people spoke out their real thoughts.” - L.M. Montgomery

12. “I wonder what a soul…a person's soul…would look like,' said Priscilla dreamily.'Like that, I should think,' answered Anne, pointing to a radiance of sifted sunlight streaming through a birch tree. 'Only with shape and features of course. I like to fancy souls as being made of light. And some are all shot through with rosy stains and quivers…and some have a soft glitter like moonlight on the sea…and some are pale and transparent like mist at dawn.” - L.M. Montgomery

13. “The knowledge of that land's geography…'east o' the sun, west o' the moon'…is priceless lore, not to be bought in any market place. It must be the gift of the good fairies at birth and the years can never deface it or take it away. It is better to possess it, living in a garret, than to be the inhabitant of palaces without it.” - L.M. Montgomery

14. “I don't really care what people think about me if they don't let me see it.” - L.M. Montgomery

15. “People who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.” - L.M. Montgomery

16. “Now, Anne, don't look as if you were trying to understand. Seventeen can't understand.” - L.M. Montgomery

17. “How sympathetic you look, Anne…as sympathetic as only seventeen can look.” - L.M. Montgomery

18. “That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic.” - L.M. Montgomery

19. “I'm just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking.” - L.M. Montgomery

20. “I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry…and I think it's nicer…' Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed… 'to look at it through poetry.” - L.M. Montgomery

21. “…the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all modes and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquillity unbroken by fickle dreams.” - L.M. Montgomery

22. “Heaven must be very beautiful, of course, the Bible says so — but, Anne, it won't be what I've been used to.” - L.M. Montgomery

23. “…I'm sorry, and a little dissatisfied as well. Miss Stacy told me long ago that by the time I was twenty my character would be formed, for good or evil. I don't feel that it's what it should be. It's full of flaws.' 'So's everybody's,' said Aunt Jamesina cheerfully. 'Mine's cracked in a hundred places. Your Miss Stacy likely meant that when you are twenty your character would have got its permanent bent in one direction or 'tother, and would go on developing in that line.” - L.M. Montgomery

24. “We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.” - L.M. Montgomery

25. “I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.” - L.M. Montgomery

26. “It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.” - L.M. Montgomery

27. “Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself.” - L.M. Montgomery

28. “We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word; and I hope it will always be so. But things can't be quite the same after this. You'll have other interests. I'll just be on the outside.” - L.M. Montgomery

29. “Nothing seems worthwhile. My very thoughts are old. I've thought them all before. What is the use of living after all, Anne?” - L.M. Montgomery

30. “I wish I were dead, or that it were tomorrow night,' groaned Phil.” - L.M. Montgomery

31. “Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.” - L.M. Montgomery

32. “Isn't it queer that the things we writhe over at night are seldom wicked things? Just humiliating ones.” - L.M. Montgomery

33. “The Woman had told her that Tomorrow never comes, but Elizabeth knows better. It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen…wonderful things.” - L.M. Montgomery

34. “Or she may find out what is at the end of the harbor road…that wandering, twisting road like a nice red snake, that leads, so Elizabeth thinks, to the end of the world. Perhaps the Island of Happiness is there.” - L.M. Montgomery

35. “I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…” - L.M. Montgomery

36. “Of course we have a Tomorrow on the map…located east of Today and west of Yesterday…and we have no end of "times" in fairyland. Spring-time, long time, short time, new-moon time, good-night time, next time…but no last time, because that is too sad a time for fairyland; old time, young time…because if there is an old time there ought to be a young time, too; mountain time…because that has such a fascinating sound; night-time and day-time…but no bed-time or school-time; Christmas-time; no only time, because that also is too sad…but lost time, because it is so nice to find it; some time, good time, fast time, slow time, half-past kissing-time, going-home time, and time immemorial…which is one of the most beautiful phrases in the world.” - L.M. Montgomery

37. “We always hate people who surprise our secrets…” - L.M. Montgomery

38. “I hope you don't think I'm one of those terrible people who make you feel that you have to talk to them all the time.” - L.M. Montgomery

39. “One can always find something lovely to look at or listen to,' said Anne.” - L.M. Montgomery

40. “She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness.” - L.M. Montgomery

41. “I'm afraid you'll find out all too soon that life's a melancholy business.” - L.M. Montgomery

42. “…you'll be spared an awful lot of trouble if you die young.” - L.M. Montgomery

43. “…I'm afraid Katherine likes me so much now that she can't always like me as much…” - L.M. Montgomery

44. “You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.” - L.M. Montgomery

45. “But is there not something strange about any room that has been occupied through generations? Death has lurked in it…love has been rosy red in it…births have been here…all the passions…all the hopes. It is full of wraths.” - L.M. Montgomery

46. “It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up,' laughed Anne.'That's a true word, dearie. Some are grown up when they're born, and others ain't grown up when they're eighty, believe me. That same Mrs. Roderick I was speaking of never grew up. She was as foolish when she was hundred as when she was ten.''Perhaps that was why she lived so long,' suggested Anne.” - L.M. Montgomery

47. “But just think what a dull world it would be if everyone was sensible,' pleaded Anne.” - L.M. Montgomery

48. “Isn't it terrible the way some unworthy folks are loved, while others that deserve it far more, you'd think, never get much affection?” - L.M. Montgomery

49. “…but youth yearned to youth.” - L.M. Montgomery

50. “The dark hills, with the darker spruces marching over them, looked grim on early falling nights, but Ingleside bloomed with firelight and laughter, though the winds come in from the Atlantic singing of mournful things. "Why isn't the wind happy, Mummy?" asked Walter one night. "Because it is remembering all the sorrow of the world since it began," answered Anne.” - L.M. Montgomery