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
There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a comforting thought
The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?
Oh, 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.
I've come home in love with loneliness
Anne "felt instinctively" that romance was peeping at her around a corner.
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.
If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.
All i want is a dress with puffy sleaves
And he wrote, "When the moon rises tonight think of me and I'll think of you.
Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have sprained my ankle. But, Marilla, I might have broken my neck. Let us look on the bright side of things.
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
Tears don't hurt like the ache does.