L.M. Montgomery Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

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

2. Anne laughed."I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you. Anne of the Island

3. 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. Anne of the Island

4. Anne, look here. Can’t we be good friends?For a moment Anne hesitated. She had an odd, newly awakened consciousness under all her outraged dignity that the half-shy, half-eager expression in Gilbert’s hazel eyes was something that was very good to see. Her heart gave a quick, queer little beat. But the bitterness of her old grievance promptly stiffened up her wavering determination. That scene of two years before flashed back into her recollection as vividly as if it had taken place yesterday. Gilbert had called her carrots and had brought about her disdain before the whole school. Her resentment, which to other and older people might be as laughable as its cause, was in no whit allayed and softened by time seemingly. She hated Gilbert Blythe! She would never forgive him!

5. 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 Anne's House of Dreams

6. Don't give up all your romance, Anne," he whispered shyly, "a little bit is a good thing - not too much, of course, but keep a little of it, Anne, keep a little of it. Anne of Green Gables

7. Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you. Anne of Windy Poplars

8. Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong. Chronicles of Avonlea

9. Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91) Emily Climbs

10. Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality. Anne's House of Dreams

11. Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.

12. That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty. Anne of the Island

13. The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not. Anne's House of Dreams

14. Despair is a free man—hope is a slave. The Blue Castle

15. It seemed like a garden where no frost could wither or rough wind blow--a garden remembering a hundred vanished summers. Emily of New Moon

16. My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes. Anne of Green Gables

17. Surely the flowers of a hundred spring are simply the souls of beautiful things! The Watchman and Other Poems

18. Surely the flowers of a hundred springs are simply the souls of beautiful things! The Watchman and Other Poems

19. 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 am going to believe that the best does. It has a fascination of its own, that bend, Marilla. I wonder how the road beyond it goes - what there is of green glory and soft, checkered light and shadows - what new landscapes - what new beauties - what curves and hills and valleys farther on. Anne of Green Gables

20. Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer. Anne of Green Gables