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
If a kiss could be seen it would look like a violet.
I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.
Don't look at me so sorrowfully and so disapprovingly, dearest. I can't be sober and serious - everything looks so rosy and rainbowy to me.
But I'd rather look like you than be pretty," she told Anne sincerely. Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting.
I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.
The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?
Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.
I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.
She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.
That's one splendid thing about such affairs — it's so lovely to look back to them.
Look, do you see that poem?' she said suddenly, pointing.
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.