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L. M. MONTGOMERY – Ultimate Collection: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poetry, Letters and Autobiography (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, The Blue Castle, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, The Golden Road, Mistress Pat, Chronicles of Avonlea, Kilmeny of the Orchard and many more

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L. M. MONTGOMERY – Ultimate Collection: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poetry, Letters and Autobiography (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, The Blue Castle, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, The Golden Road, Mistress Pat, Chronicles of Avonlea, Kilmeny of the Orchard and many more Quotes

“if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.”

“The world is always young again for just a few moments at the dawn.”

“It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?”

“brains last, beauty doesn't.”

“It is a strange thing to read a letter after the writer is dead - a bitter-sweet thing, in which pain and comfort are strangely mingled.”

“Trees have as much individuality as human beings. Not even two spruces are alike. There is always some kink or curve or bend of bough to single each one out from its fellows.”

“trees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. No matter how much you like them at the start you are sure to like them much better further on, and best of all when you have known them for years and enjoyed intercourse with them in all seasons.”

“There be three gentle and goodlie things, To be here, To be together, And to think well of one another.”

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

“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.”

“It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen ... wonderful things.”

“Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!”

“The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr," remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. "It is the most contented sound in the world.”

“She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.”

“She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.”

“My pen shall heal, not hurt.”

“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”

“And he wrote, "When the moon rises tonight think of me and I'll think of you.”

“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”

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

“Nobody is ever too old to dream. And dreams never grow old.”

“Besides, I've been feeling a little blue — just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker.”

“Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have!”

“Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?”

“That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.”

“Look, do you see that poem?' she said suddenly, pointing.”

“You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets.”

“I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.”

“I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful.”

“I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.”

“Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.”

“I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.”

“People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is.”

“It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?”

“Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?”

“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.”

“Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.”

“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.”

“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it?”