568 Quotes by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it.

But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.

We ought always to try to influence others for good.

In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces

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

There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.