I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn't be I โ as if I must have changed into somebody else and couldn't get used to it. It gives me a horrible lonely, dazed, helpless feeling. It's good to see you again โ it seems as if you were a sort of anchor for my drifting soul.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryI wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryIf you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryWhy must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray Iโll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the skyโupโupโupโinto that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.
Lucy Maud Montgomery"Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne. "You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.".
Lucy Maud Montgomery