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
But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?
Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.
My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.
There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)
I know that in everybody's life must come days of depression and discouragement when all things in life seem to lose savour. The sunniest day has its clouds;but one must not forget the sun is there all the time.
It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.
Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.
the little things in life often make more trouble than the big things.
It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.
…it's so dreadful to have nothing to love — life is so empty — and there's nothing worse than emptiness…
Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.
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.