Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes - Page 7

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• I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Ambition, People, Joy

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles (Annotated Edition)”, p.351, Jazzybee Verlag

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• What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of criticism. The one essential thing I demand of a book is that it should interest me. If it does, I forgive it every other fault.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Art, Book, Forgiving

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• …always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches had hurt her in her own sorrow and was afraid.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Hurt, Pain, Comforting

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne's House of Dreams”, p.147, Gideon House Books

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• Love you! Girl, you're in the very core of my heart. I hold you there like a jewel. Didn't I promise you I'd never tell you a lie? Love you! I love you with all there is of me to love. Heart, soul, brain. Every fibre of body and spirit thrilling to the sweetness of you. There's nobody in the world for me but you, Valancy.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Girl, Lying, Love You

  "The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery".

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• Have you ever noticed that when people say it is their duty to tell you a certain thing you may prepare for something disagreeable? Why is it that they never seem to think it a duty to tell you the pleasant things they hear about you?

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Thinking, People, May

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles (Annotated Edition)”, p.351, Jazzybee Verlag

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

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Sweet, Book, Yesterday

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE SHIRLEY Complete Series - ALL 14 Books in One Volume: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more: Including the Memoirs & Letters of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.577, e-artnow

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• …the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all modes and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquillity unbroken by fickle dreams.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Summer, Dream, Spring

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• [she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Giving Up, Want, Reputation

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY - The Woman Behind The Books: Autobiography & Private Letters (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy & The Blue Castle): The Alpine Path (Memoirs), Complete Chronicles of Avonlea, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Jane of Lantern Hill, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon and more”, p.3390, e-artnow

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• I have a dream," he said slowly. "I persist in dreaming it, although it has often seemed to me that it could never come true. I dream of a home with a hearth-fire in it, a cat and dog, the footsteps of friends -- and YOU!

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Dream, Dog, Home

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more”, p.655, e-artnow

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• Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Healthy

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• It's great to be great, but it's great to be human.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Humans

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• The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Looks, World, Pleasure

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• It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Imagination, Green Gables, Delightful

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poems, Letters and Memoirs (Including The Complete Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Avonlea & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Pat of Silver Bush, The Blue Castle & many more”, p.22, e-artnow

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• We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after all, there are no such things as 'wasted' lives, saving and except when am individual wilfully squanders and wastes his own life.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Running, Comforting, Saving

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE SHIRLEY Complete Series - ALL 14 Books in One Volume: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more: Including the Memoirs & Letters of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.958, e-artnow

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• Besides, I've been feeling a little blue — just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Blue, Feelings, Littles

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “L. M. MONTGOMERY – Ultimate Collection: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poetry, Letters and Autobiography (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, The Blue Castle, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, The Golden Road, Mistress Pat, Chronicles of Avonlea, Kilmeny of the Orchard and many more”, p.498, e-artnow

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• Fairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Heart, Mean, Desire

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “THE TALES OF AVONLEA - Complete Collection: 16 Novels & 27 Short Stories (Including Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Prince Edward Island, The Story Girl & Emily Starr Trilogy)”, p.2407, e-artnow

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• Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Husband, Risk, Done

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• Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert her

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Desert, Deals

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “Jane Of Lantern Hill (Annotated Edition)”, p.218, Jazzybee Verlag

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• [O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Dream, Rooms, Pretty Things

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more”, p.101, e-artnow

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• 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.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Broken Heart, Dream, Real

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE SHIRLEY Complete Series - ALL 14 Books in One Volume: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more: Including the Memoirs & Letters of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.400, e-artnow

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• I've a pocket full of dreams to sell," said Teddy, whimsically,... "What d'ye lack? What d'ye lack? A dream of success--a dream of adventure--a dream of the sea--a dream of the woodland--any kind of a dream you want at reasonable prices, including one or two unique little nightmares. What will you give me for a dream?

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Dream, Adventure, Unique

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Emily Climbs”, p.253, Booklassic

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• An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Home, Eye, Thinking

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne of Avonlea”, p.18, First Avenue Editions

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• I don't really care what people think about me if they don't let me see it.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Thinking, People, Care

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poems, Letters and Memoirs (Including The Complete Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Avonlea & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Pat of Silver Bush, The Blue Castle & many more”, p.395, e-artnow

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• I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Night, Storm, Cosy

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “THE TALES OF AVONLEA - Complete Collection: 16 Novels & 27 Short Stories (Including Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Prince Edward Island, The Story Girl & Emily Starr Trilogy)”, p.2356, e-artnow

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• 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?

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Believe, Thinking, Dust

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more”, p.757, e-artnow

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