L.M. Montgomery

"Oh, this is the most TRAGICAL thing that ever happened to me!"

"Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne."

"Then the immortal heart of the woods will beat against ours and its subtle life will steal into our veins and make us its own forever, so that no matter where we go or how widely we wander we shall yet be drawn back to the forest to find our most enduring kinship."

"It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable."

"He was so lonely that he laughed at himself."

"Ilse and I hunted all over the old orchard today for a four-leaved clover and couldn't find one. Then I found one in a clump of clover by the dairy steps tonight when I was straining the milk and never thinking of clovers. Cousin Jimmy says that is the way luck always comes, and it is no use to look for it."

"I'm afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life."

"More than ever at that instant did she long for speech - speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray."

"Oh, as Dean says, nobody is free - never, except just for a few brief moments now and then, when the flash comes, or when as on my haystack night, the soul slips over into eternity for a little space. All the rest of our years we are slaves to something - traditions - conventions - ambitions - relations."

"If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys."

"Long ago, before I had ever seen a diamond, I read about them and I tried to imagine what they would be like ... When I saw a real diamond in a lady's ring one day I was so disappointed I cried. Of course, it was very lovely but it wasn't my idea of a diamond."

"A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter."