Quotes by L. M. Montgomery

“Davy, however, was perfectly happy... he was reading an enthralling tale, in a school library book, of a wonderful hero who seemed blessed with a miraculous faculty for getting into scrapes from which he was usually delivered by an earthquake or a volcanic explosion, which blew him high and dry out of his troubles, landed him in a fortune, and closed the story with proper éclat.”

“Anne went in with cheeks of flame and her heart beating to her finger-tips. Her soul was full of romantic thrills.”

“A bosom friend — an intimate friend, you know — a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.”

“[T]he beautiful world of blossom and love and friendship had lost none of its power to please her fancy and thrill her heart... life still called to her with many insistent voices.”

“Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by a happiness that is not your own.”