25 Quotes by L. M. Montgomery

I think it is because I have a habit, when I am bored or disgusted with people of stepping suddenly into my own world and shutting the door. People resent this -- I suppose it is only natural to resent a door being shut in your face. They call it slyness when it is only self-defense.

I think it's something like Mr. Peter Sloane and the octogenarians. The other evening Mrs. Sloane was reading a newspaper ans she said to Mr. Sloane 'I see here that another octogenarian has just died. What is an Octogenarian, Peter?' And Mr. Sloane said he didn't know, but they must be very sickly creatures, for you never heard tell of them but they were dying.

I am your friend and you are mine, for always," she said. "Such a friend as I never had before. I have had many dear and beloved friends—but there is a something in you, Leslie, that I never found in anyone else. You have more to offer me in that rich nature of yours, and I have more to give you than I had in my careless girlhood. We are both women—and friends forever."They clasped hands and smiled at each other through the tears that filled the gray eyes and the blue.

There was a milk-white, pulsating star just over one of them, like a living pearl on a silver-green lake.

Mrs. Hammon told me that God made my hair red on purpose and I haven't card for him since.

I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.

It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.

Mrs Lynde says, "Blessed are they who expect nothing, for they shall not be disappointed." But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.