568 Quotes by Lucy Maud Montgomery

But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?

I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.

She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair." — Anne Shirley

I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)

...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?

Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below.

Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth