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E la gente ride di me perché uso parole grosse. Ma se si hanno in testa idee grosse, bisogna usare parole grosse per esprimerle, non trova?


L.M. Montgomery

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L.M. MONTGOMERY Anne: "But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mist...
L.M. MONTGOMERY I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomf...
L.M. MONTGOMERY I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful.
L.M. MONTGOMERY I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape.
'The very idea of ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY It would be so much easier to be good if one’s hair was handsome auburn, don’t you think?
L.M. MONTGOMERY Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Heaven must be very beautiful, of course, the Bible says so — but, Anne, it won't be what I've bee...
L.M. MONTGOMERY The Woman had told her that Tomorrow never comes, but Elizabeth knows better. It will come sometime....
L.M. MONTGOMERY I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinki...
L.M. MONTGOMERY That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about th...
L.M. MONTGOMERY What is it really like to be engaged?" asked Anne curiously.

"Well, that all depends on ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Well, I don't want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life,' decla...
L.M. MONTGOMERY All i want is a dress with puffy sleaves
L.M. MONTGOMERY It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.
L.M. MONTGOMERY I never see a ship sailing out of the channel, or a gull soaring over the sand-bar, without wishing ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautifu...
L.M. MONTGOMERY That is one good thing about this world...there are always sure to be more springs.
L.M. MONTGOMERY Of course we have a Tomorrow on the map…located east of Today and west of Yesterday…and we have ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to he...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Let your spirit soar to heaven with it whenever you use it, like the bird who once bore it.
L.M. MONTGOMERY Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
L.M. MONTGOMERY The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full s...
L.M. MONTGOMERY That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY It's a very bad habit to put off disagreeable things...
L.M. MONTGOMERY I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.
L.M. MONTGOMERY If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet,' said Priscilla.
Anne glowed.
L.M. MONTGOMERY Perhaps she had not succeeded in 'inspiring' any wonderful ambitions in her pupils, but she had taug...
L.M. MONTGOMERY That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on tryi...
L.M. MONTGOMERY She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne.
L.M. MONTGOMERY At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on.
L.M. MONTGOMERY But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a w...
L.M. MONTGOMERY That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, ev...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Everything that's worth having is some trouble…
L.M. MONTGOMERY I'm just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes o...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Anne had no sooner uttered the phrase, "home o'dreams," than it captivated her fancy and she immedia...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Having adventures comes natural to some people", said Anne serenely. "You just have a gift for them ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.
L.M. MONTGOMERY …I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Yes, it's beautiful,' said Gilbert, looking steadily down into Anne's uplifted face, 'but wouldn't i...
L.M. MONTGOMERY There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen.
L.M. MONTGOMERY I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.
L.M. MONTGOMERY I've come home in love with loneliness
L.M. MONTGOMERY You could not fence with an antagonist who met rapier thrust with blow of battle axe.
L.M. MONTGOMERY When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I coul...
L.M. MONTGOMERY I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset......
L.M. MONTGOMERY Just to love! She did not ask to be loved. It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in sil...
L.M. MONTGOMERY People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.
L.M. MONTGOMERY There are some people to whom life will never be anything more than a kitchen garden; and there are ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Reformation with men and dogs never goes very deep.
L.M. MONTGOMERY Oh, daddy, by what witchcraft have you coaxed that sulky rose-bush into bloom?'

'No witch...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Even eighty-odd is sometimes vulnerable to vanity.
L.M. MONTGOMERY I had always disliked men. It must have been born in me, because, as far back as I can remember, an ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY He had learned the rare secret that you must take happiness when you find it - that there is no use ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Desire grows by what it feeds on.
L.M. MONTGOMERY Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
L.M. MONTGOMERY I went looking for my dreams outside of myself and discovered, it's not what the world holds for you...
L.M. MONTGOMERY ...Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel g...
L.M. MONTGOMERY I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it c...
L.M. MONTGOMERY There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)
L.M. MONTGOMERY Today has been a day dropped out of June into April.
L.M. MONTGOMERY Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expected a kiss.
L.M. MONTGOMERY Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Do you expect to attend many balls, if I may ask?' and I said, 'Yes, when I am...
L.M. MONTGOMERY The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?
L.M. MONTGOMERY You were never poor as long as you had something to love.
L.M. MONTGOMERY We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share th...
L.M. MONTGOMERY But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected.
"I'm not afraid of that. ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY If you love me as I love you Nothing but death can part us two.
L.M. MONTGOMERY Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have spr...
L.M. MONTGOMERY I've a pocket full of dreams to sell," said Teddy, whimsically,... "What d'ye lack? What d'ye lack? ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Never on painter's canvas lives
The charm of his fancy's dream.
L.M. MONTGOMERY The happiest countries, like the happiest women, have no history.
L.M. MONTGOMERY She will love deeply, she will suffer terribly, she will have glorious moments to compensate.
L.M. MONTGOMERY To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!
L.M. MONTGOMERY The world is always young again for just a few moments at the dawn.
L.M. MONTGOMERY If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery
L.M. MONTGOMERY Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth
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