01c. 1896 ADI think this story-writing business is the foolishest yet," scoffed Marilla. "You'll get a pack of nonsense into your heads and waste time that should be put to your lessons. Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
02c. 1896 ADThen the immortal heart of the woods will beat against ours and its subtle life will steal into our veins and make us its own forever, so that no matter where we go or how widely we wander we shall yet be drawn back to the forest to find our most enduring kinship.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
03c. 1896 ADI hear the Wind Woman running with soft, soft footsteps over the hill. I shall always think of the wind as a personality. She is a shrew when she blows from the north -- a lonely seeker when she blows from the east -- a laughing girl when she comes from the west -- and tonight from the south a little grey fairy.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
04c. 1896 ADNobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
05c. 1896 ADWe resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find out interest in life returning to us.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
06c. 1896 ADI wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
07c. 1896 ADOh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
08c. 1896 ADA woman cannot ever be sure of not being married till she is buried, Mrs. Doctor, dear, and meanwhile I will make a batch of cherry pies.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
09c. 1896 ADDon't be fretting...about me marrying. Marrying's a trouble and not marrying's a trouble and I sticks to the trouble I knows.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
11c. 1896 ADYou've all been so sure that life is good that I've never been able to disbelieve it. Never will be able to.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
12c. 1896 ADMrs. Binnie says we throw out more with a spoon than the men can be bringing in with a shovel...Binnie-like. Our men like the good living. And what if we don't be having too much money, Patsy dear? Sure and we do have lashings of things no money could be buying. There'll be enough squeezed out for Cuddles when the time comes. The Good Man Above will be seeing to that.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
13c. 1896 ADA house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
14c. 1896 ADBut I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about?L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
15c. 1896 ADThat is one good thing about this world…there are always sure to be more springs.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
16c. 1896 ADI'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape.'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
17c. 1896 ADWalter looked about him lingeringly and lovingly. This spot had always been so dear to him. What fun they all had had here lang syne. Phantoms of memory seemed to pace the dappled paths and peep merrily through the swinging boughs–Jem and Jerry, bare-legged, sunburned schoolboys, fishing in the brook and frying trout over the old stone fireplace; Nan and Di and Faith, in their dimpled, fresh-eyed childish beauty; Una the sweet and shy, Carl, poring over ants and bugs, little slangy, sharp-tongued, good-hearted Mary Vance–the old Walter that had been himself lying on the grass reading poetry or wandering through palaces of fancy. They were all there around him–he could see them almost as plainly as he saw Rilla–as plainly as he had once seen the Pied Piper piping down the valley in a vanished twilight. And they said to him, those gay little ghosts of other days, "We were the children of yesterday, Walter–fight a good fight for the children of today and tomorrow.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
18c. 1896 ADBut you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my dreams have that I mustn't complain. Am I all ready now?L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
20c. 1896 ADLovely thoughts came flying to meet me like birds. They weren't my thoughts. I couldn't think anything half so exquisite. They came from somewhere.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
21c. 1896 ADWhen 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.L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
23c. 1896 ADBut if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
24c. 1896 ADDon't be ridiculous, please.'The most insulting words in the world!L.M. Montgomery / quote ↗
