I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryI'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryAn old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryWhen I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame.
Lucy Maud Montgomery