I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryI can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea," said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. "And asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryโฆI think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryA 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