Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has marked every step of its painful ascent with blood. And now torrents of it must flow again.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryNathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryWe are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryI don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryIf any person wants to see clearly just how much she has changed - whether for better or worse - let her revisit after some lapse of time any place where she has ones lived. She will meet her former self at every turn, with every familiar face, in every old recollection ... She will see how much she has gained in some respects, how much she has lost - irretrievably lost - in others.
Lucy Maud Montgomery