I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight. Lucy Maud Montgomery More Quotes by Lucy Maud Montgomery More Quotes From Lucy Maud Montgomery 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 savingrunningcomforting For there is no bond more lasting than that formed by the mutual confidences of that magic time when youth is slipping from the sheath of childhood and beginning to wonder what lies for it beyond those misty hills that bound the golden road. Lucy Maud Montgomery childhoodmagiclying I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence something to thank God for. I suppose our 'blues' are the price we have to pay for our temperament. 'The gods don't allow us to be in their debt.' They give us sensitiveness to beauty in all its forms but the shadow of the gift goes with it. Lucy Maud Montgomery oppositesbeautifulgiving A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful. Lucy Maud Montgomery deceitfulangerchildren Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below. Lucy Maud Montgomery shamenamesbook Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven. Lucy Maud Montgomery flowersummerthinking I wonder what a soul…a person's soul…would look like,' said Priscilla dreamily. 'Like that, I should think,' answered Anne, pointing to a radiance of sifted sunlight streaming through a birch tree. 'Only with shape and features of course. I like to fancy souls as being made of light. And some are all shot through with rosy stains and quivers…and some have a soft glitter like moonlight on the sea…and some are pale and transparent like mist at dawn. Lucy Maud Montgomery lightseathinking I know that in everybody's life must come days of depression and discouragement when all things in life seem to lose savour. The sunniest day has its clouds;but one must not forget the sun is there all the time. Lucy Maud Montgomery things-in-lifecloudsdepression Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain. Lucy Maud Montgomery painbrokenheart There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible. Lucy Maud Montgomery book-of-revelationrevelationsbook It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods. Lucy Maud Montgomery summerwindnight They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla? Lucy Maud Montgomery serious-thingsgrowing-upthinking To dispair is to turn your back on God. Lucy Maud Montgomery turns 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 dogdreamhome She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare. Lucy Maud Montgomery platesnightmarefashion I am well in body although considerably rumpled up in spirit, thank you, ma'am,' said Anne gravely. Then aside to Marilla in an audible whisper, 'There wasn't anything startling in that, was there, Marilla? Lucy Maud Montgomery bodyspiritsaid Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world can’t make up for the lack of it. ~Aunt Josephine to Anne in Anne Of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery degreesromancegirl 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 riskhusbanddone Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love. Lucy Maud Montgomery one-you-lovehousepeople Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things? Lucy Maud Montgomery scentsunsetpeople
