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1 " 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. "
― L.M. Montgomery
2 " And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone. "
3 " 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. "
4 " Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you. "
― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Windy Poplars (Anne of Green Gables, #4)
5 " Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things? "
― L.M. Montgomery , Emily's Quest (Emily, #3)
6 " Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it. "
― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
7 " Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet? "
8 " Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. "
― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables #2)
9 " I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over. "
10 " Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing. "
11 " I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing. "
12 " 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. "
13 " Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong. "
― L.M. Montgomery , Chronicles of Avonlea (Chronicles of Avonlea, #1)
14 " The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it? "
15 " ...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear. "
― L.M. Montgomery , Anne of the Island (Anne of Green Gables, #3)
16 " When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding. "
17 " It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. "
18 " Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality. "
― L.M. Montgomery , Anne's House of Dreams (Anne of Green Gables, #5)
19 " 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. "
20 " We mustn't let next week rob us of this week's joy. "
