Quotes from LM Montgomery

You know there are some people, like Matthew and Mrs. Allen, that you can love right off without any trouble. And there are others, like Mrs. Lynde, that you have to try very hard to love. You know you ought to love them because they know so much and are such active workers in the church, but you have to keep reminding yourself of it all the time or else you forget.

Listen to the trees talking in their sleep," she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. "What nice dreams they must have!

She isn't like any of the girls I ever knew, or any of the girls I was myself.

Good behavior in the first place is more important than theatrical apologies afterwards.

Oh, as Dean says, nobody is free - never, except just for a few brief moments now and then, when the flash comes, or when as on my haystack night, the soul slips over into eternity for a little space. All the rest of our years we are slaves to something - traditions - conventions - ambitions - relations.

There is some good in every person if you can find it. It is a teacher's duty to find and develop it.

Ye've only got to live one day at a time, darlint. One can always be living just one more day.

Valancy held Cissy close. She was suddenly happy. Here was someone who needed her — someone she could help. She was no longer a superfluity. Old things had passed away; everything had become new.

Oh, I think some parts of it are fine, conceded Davy. That story about Joseph now—it's bully. But if I'd been Joseph Iwouldn't have forgive the brothers. No, siree, Anne. I'd have cut all their heads off.

And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.

There is such a place as fairyland—but only children can find the way to it. And they do not know that it is fairyland until they have grown so old that they forget the way.

God is in His heaven. All is right in the world.