Why 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 MontgomeryWar was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryThere are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryYou see," she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryIsn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?But am I talking too much? People are always telling me I do. Would you rather I didn't talk? If you say so I'll stop. I can STOP when I make up my mind to it, although it's difficult.
Lucy Maud Montgomery