People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is. Lucy Maud Montgomery More Quotes by Lucy Maud Montgomery More Quotes From Lucy Maud Montgomery There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen. Lucy Maud Montgomery bends-in-the-road knows happens I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured. Lucy Maud Montgomery emotion crazy sound Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think. Lucy Maud Montgomery expectations sides thinking …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 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 real dream My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes. Lucy Maud Montgomery hope perfect life Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it. Lucy Maud Montgomery peaceful sorrow night …I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us. Lucy Maud Montgomery people needs thinking There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting. Lucy Maud Montgomery different interesting thinking Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to find - which He ain't never. Lucy Maud Montgomery jest wicked lost The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland. Lucy Maud Montgomery artist people world We belong to the race that knows Joseph Lucy Maud Montgomery race knows Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive-it's such an interesting world. Lucy Maud Montgomery talking-too-much interesting thinking It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it? Lucy Maud Montgomery wicked knowing easy Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing. Lucy Maud Montgomery encouraging uplifting positive It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying. Lucy Maud Montgomery ifs seems worry ... we always love best the people who need us. Lucy Maud Montgomery love-is people needs We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great. Lucy Maud Montgomery new-years-resolution sorry trying She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren. Lucy Maud Montgomery often-can awkward grandchildren It's rather hard to decide just when people are grown up. Lucy Maud Montgomery adulthood hard people
