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
You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.
People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is.
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.
Jane's stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills the off to get rid of them." -Anne Shirley
I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.
Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.
It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.
there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.
Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?
When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.
Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!
When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.
Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.
Having adventures comes natural to some people", said Anne serenely. "You just have a gift for them or you haven't.