01c. 1896 ADThat's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
02c. 1896 ADAunt Elizabeth said, 'Do you expect to attend many balls, if I may ask?' and I said, 'Yes, when I am rich and famous.' and Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Yes, when the moon is made of green cheese.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
04c. 1896 ADI never hear about dear Mike. I wrote Ellen Greene and asked about him and she replyed and never mentioned Mike but told me all about her roomatism. As if I cared about her roomatism.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
05c. 1896 ADI think it's something like Mr. Peter Sloane and the octogenarians. The other evening Mrs. Sloane was reading a newspaper ans she said to Mr. Sloane 'I see here that another octogenarian has just died. What is an Octogenarian, Peter?' And Mr. Sloane said he didn't know, but they must be very sickly creatures, for you never heard tell of them but they were dying.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
06c. 1896 ADI am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
07c. 1896 ADI hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
08c. 1896 ADOur library isn't very extensive," said Anne, "but every book in it is a friend. We've picked our books up through the years, here and there, never buying one until we had first read it and knew that it belonged to the race of Joseph.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
09c. 1896 ADBlessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be--to me in all events--a terrible thing without books.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
10c. 1896 ADFear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear and it is of all things degrading.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
11c. 1896 ADFear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
14c. 1896 ADOh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
15c. 1896 ADWhen twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
18c. 1896 ADEven when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships — and nice, jolly little times with people.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
19c. 1896 ADThank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful…L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
20c. 1896 ADI 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 — 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 — it seems as if you were a sort of anchor for my drifting soul.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
21c. 1896 ADWe've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word; and I hope it will always be so. But things can't be quite the same after this. You'll have other interests. I'll just be on the outside.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
22c. 1896 ADPeople who are different from other people are always called peculiar,' said Anne.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
23c. 1896 ADIt takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
24c. 1896 ADBefore this war is over,' [Walter] said - or something said through his lips - 'every man and woman and child in Canada will feel it - you, Mary, will feel it - feel it to your heart's core. You will weep tears of blood over it. The Piper has come - and he will pipe until every corner of the world has heard his awful and irresistible music. It will be years before the dance of death is over - years, Mary. And in those years millions of hearts will break.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
