I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryShe asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryThe woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only โ a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryBlessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryYou are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryGilbert took from his desk a little pink candy heart with a gold motto on it, โYou are sweet,โ and slipped it under the curve of Anneโs arm. Whereupon Anne arose, took the pink heart gingerly between the tips of her fingers, dropped it on the floor, ground it to powder beneath her heel, and resumed her position without deigning to bestow a glance on Gilbert.
Lucy Maud Montgomery