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'm in the depths of despair!" (Anne of Green Gables)
I don't like green Christmases. They're not green—they're just nasty faded browns and grays.
But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.
I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.
But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'.
God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly.
Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.
Anne laughed. "I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you.
It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.
It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?
Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.
It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry.
That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs.
But 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?