L.M. Montgomery

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?

I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.

When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding.

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.

When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.

I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…

Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.

I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.

Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Anne laughed.I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you.

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.

And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.

I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?