980 Quotes by L.M. Montgomery

Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.

I’m like Kipling’s cat – I walk by my wild lone and wave my wild tail where so it pleases me.

Jane says she will devote her whole life to teaching, and never, never marry, because you are paid a salary for teaching, but a husband won’t pay you anything, and growls if you ask for a share in the egg and butter money.

What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.

That’s one splendid thing about such affairs – it’s so lovely to look back to them.

Oh, what I know about myself isn’t really worth telling, said Anne eagerly. If you’ll only let me tell you what I imagine about myself you’ll think it ever so much more interesting.

Even skeptical Dan prayed, his skepticism falling away from him like a discarded garment in this valley of the shadow, which sifts out hearts and tries souls, until we all, grown-up or children, realize our weakness, and, finding that our own puny strength is as a reed shaken in the wind, creep back humbly to the God we have vainly dreamed we could do without.

Then they walked home together in the dusk, crowned king and queen in the bridal realm of love, along winding paths fringed with the sweetest flowers that ever bloomed, and over haunted meadows where winds of hope and memory blew.

I am afraid to speak or move for the fear all this wonderful beauty will vanish just like a broken silence.