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Quotes from LM Montgomery

Oh, but there are, Marilla," cried Anne eagerly. "I know people who have seen them. And they are respectable people. Charlie Sloane says that his grandmother saw his grandfather driving home the cows one night after he'd been buried for a year. You know Charlie Sloane's grandmother wouldn't tell a story for anything. She's a very religious woman. And Mrs. Thomas's father was pursued home one night by a lamb of fire with its head
— LM Montgomery
Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.
— LM Montgomery
Üniversite eÄŸitiminden almak istediÄŸim ÅŸey, hayat? en iyi ÅŸekilde yaÅŸamak konusunda biraz bilgi ve bildiklerimle elimden gelenin en iyisini yapabilmek. Kendimi ve diÄŸer insanlar? anlamay?, onlara yard?m etmeyi öÄŸrenmek istiyorum.
— LM Montgomery
On Monday I received a letter from Golden Days, a Philadelphia juvenile, accepting a short story I had sent there and enclosing a cheque for five dollars. It was the first money my pen had ever earned; I did not squander it in riotous living, neither did I invest it in necessary boots and gloves. I went up town and bought five volumes of poetry with it -- Tennyson, Byron, Milton, Longfellow, Whittier. I wanted something I could keep for ever in memory of having arrived.
— LM Montgomery
I fear the name of friendship is often degraded to a kind of intimacy that has nothing of real friendship in it.
— LM Montgomery
There are lots of things that never go by rule, There's a powerful pile o' knowledge That you never get at college, There are heaps of things you never learn at school.
— LM Montgomery
I do not know the difference between them, for the politics of the Yankees is a puzzle I cannot solve, study it as I may. But as far as seeing through a grindstone goes, I am afraid— Susan shook her head dubiously, that they are all tarred with the same brush.
— LM Montgomery
I believe in a girl being fitted to earn her own living whether she ever has to or not. You'll
— LM Montgomery
Fear is more pain than is the pain it fears
— LM Montgomery
What is to be will be, and what isn't to be happens sometimes.
— LM Montgomery
There is some good in every person if you can find it. It is a teacher's duty to find and develop it.
— LM Montgomery
Gracious heavenly Father, I thank Thee for the White Way of Delight and the Lake of Shining Waters and Bonny and the Snow Queen. I'm really extremely grateful for them. And that's all the blessings I can think of just now to thank Thee for. As for the things I want, they're so numerous that it would take a great deal of time to name them all so I will only mention the two most important. Please let me stay at Green Gables; and please let me be good-looking when I grow up.
— LM Montgomery