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 have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.
Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.
It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.
People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't.
...a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world.
Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.
One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
the little things in life often make more trouble than the big things.
I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
Besides, I've been feeling a little blue — just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker.
That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them.
I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment…
All things great are wound up with all things little.
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.