980 Quotes by L.M. Montgomery

Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.

Anne laughed."I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you.

That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.

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

Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.

But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected."I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes—when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables—when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had—when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy." -Anne

I've put out a lot of little roots these two years," Anne told the moon, "and when I'm pulled up they're going to hurt a great deal. But it's best to go, I think, and, as Marilla says, there's no good reason why I shouldn't. I must get out all my ambitions and dust them.

Changes come all the time. Just as soon as things get really nice they change,' she said with a sigh.

We _are_ rich,' said Anne staunchly. 'Why, we have sixteen years to our credit, and we are as happy as queens and we've all got imaginations, more or less. Look at that sea, girls - all silver and shallow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.