The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryHaving adventures comes natural to some people", said Anne serenely. "You just have a gift for them or you haven't.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryThere is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves--so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful.
Lucy Maud Montgomery[Anne, commenting on city life] "I think I would probably come to the conclusion that I'd like it for a while... but in the end, I'd still prefer the sound of the wind in the firs across the brook more than the tinkling of crystal.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryIn imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
Lucy Maud Montgomery