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
I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.
I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.
Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it.
But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.
We ought always to try to influence others for good.
In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.
A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.
Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces
I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.
There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.
Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.
I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.
Welcome, Anne. I thought you'd come today. You belong to the afternoon so it brought you. Things that belong together are sure to come together. What a lot of trouble that would save some people if they only knew it. But they don't...and so they waste beautiful energy moving heaven and earth to bring things together that don't belong.