568 Quotes by Lucy Maud Montgomery

She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.

I heard someone once say that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.

I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.

A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing...

It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em," said Captain Jim. "When I ponder on them seeds I don't find it nowise hard to believe that we've got souls that'll live in other worlds. You couldn't hardly believe there was life in them tiny things, some no bigger than grains of dust, let alone colour and scent, if you hadn't seen the miracle, could you?

I wonder if it will be—can be—any more beautiful than this,’ murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptured eyes of those to whom ‘home’ must always be the loveliest spot in the world, no matter what fairer lands may lie under alien stars.

People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is.

It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?