568 Quotes by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Well I have written my book. That dream from years ago in that brown school desk has come true with years of toil and struggle. But the realization makes it infinitely sweeter, almost as sweet as the dream.

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.

We would reach the "far-off divine event" and look out thence to the aerial spires of our City of Fulfillment.

I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday, sweet and beloved, between its leaves.

Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.

You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?But am I talking too much? People are always telling me I do. Would you rather I didn't talk? If you say so I'll stop. I can STOP when I make up my mind to it, although it's difficult.

A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it.