Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good. Lucy Maud Montgomery More Quotes by Lucy Maud Montgomery More Quotes From Lucy Maud Montgomery Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays. Lucy Maud Montgomery silent silence said "Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne. "You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.". Lucy Maud Montgomery blessed fun thinking But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my dreams have that I mustn't complain. Am I all ready now? Lucy Maud Montgomery lovely complaining dream 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 dust believe thinking I wonder if it will be—can be—any more beautiful than this,’ murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptured eyes of those to whom ‘home’ must always be the loveliest spot in the world, no matter what fairer lands may lie under alien stars. Lucy Maud Montgomery stars beautiful lying People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is. Lucy Maud Montgomery red hair people The greatest happiness is to sneeze when you want to. Lucy Maud Montgomery want I'm so glad my window looks east into the sunrising- It's so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long hills and glowing through those sharp fir tops. It's new every morning, and I feel as if I washed my very soul in that bath of earliest sunshine. Lucy Maud Montgomery glowing sunshine morning Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it. Lucy Maud Montgomery days-like-this being-happy people Human nature is not obliged to be consistent. Lucy Maud Montgomery consistent human-nature humans Hark, I hear a robin calling! Lucy Maud Montgomery spring sweet fall The trouble with you people is that you don't laugh enough. Lucy Maud Montgomery trouble laughing people I am sure we should not shut our hearts against the healing influences that nature offers us. But I understand your feeling. I think we all experience the same thing. We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us. Lucy Maud Montgomery healing heart thinking It's fun to be almost grown up in some ways, but it's not the kind of fun I expected, Marilla. There's so much to learn and do and think that there isn't time for big words. Lucy Maud Montgomery fun way thinking But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected. "I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes—when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables—when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had—when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy." -Anne Lucy Maud Montgomery eye joy giving I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes. Lucy Maud Montgomery fool sake heaven No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors. Lucy Maud Montgomery ancestor thousand There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own; but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain. Lucy Maud Montgomery neglect busybodies people I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment. Lucy Maud Montgomery cocoons may ideas …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 pain hurt comforting
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