Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE, publicly known as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. The central character, Anne Shirley, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. The first novel was followed by a series of sequels with Anne as the central character. Montgomery went on to publish 20 novels as well as...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth30 November 1874
CountryCanada
Desire grows by what it feeds on.
Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.
At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on.
Oh, 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.
And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.
You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.
Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert her
Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!
I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.
In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you
...a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world.
Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?
March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.
Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.