Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.


L.M. Montgomery

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

When the broken hearted people living in the world agree, there will be an answer, let it be.
CHRISTOPHER CHASE
Why be greedy when you can have it all.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
If you want to find something with an equation, you must start thinking like a person who have it.
DEYTH BANGER
37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON
I want to be honest, and even if that's scary, I know it's worth it.
EMM GRYNER
I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.
EMILY BRONTë
It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
JOHN GREEN
If we could have the ability to change the past and right our wrongs would it make us learn from any...
GARY F EVANS...
To be in a time of technological change and advancement is an awesome thought indeed as long as it i...
GARY F EVANS...
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD
Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have p...
EMILY BRONTë
I'm not a broken down car, that you can just push on down the street.. I'm a girl that's in love wit...
AUDRA BUKAUSKAS
Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA
Everyone has a gift.
It's up to you to decide what you do with it.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
How wild it was, to let it be.
T. S. ELIOT
I'm not crying because of you; you're not worth it. I'm crying because my delusion of who you were w...
STEVE MARABOLI
You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt f...
EMILY BRONTë
You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married."

"I...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS
You can BE, DO, and HAVE ...absolutely ANYTHING you really, really want to BE, DO, and HAVE.
LORRIN L. LEE
To kill yourself for earning a salary is not worth it.
NARGIS FAKHRI
You loved me—then what right had you to leave me? What right—answer me—for the poor fancy you ...
EMILY BRONTë
I have spend a lot of time on everything and what's impresses me about people I have written that in...
DEYTH BANGER
It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise
SARA TEASDALE
Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be...
SANDRA K. COOK
...Okay... probably now you have read all my books up to now..., you have check out everything what ...
DEYTH BANGER
It is strange how often a heart must be broken
Before the years can make it wise.
SARA TEASDALE
Do not be afraid of failure, it is part of the learning process
SOTONYE ANGA
When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
JOHN GREEN
Oh, I wouldn’t mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
JOHN GREEN
Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, if it means that a thousand other...
ELIE WIESEL
If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Ju...
CLAIRE DANES
Be the best you can be. Do the best you can do. Have the best you can have.
LORRIN L. LEE
Everyone has there own good reasons for being what they are being, doing what they are doing, and ha...
LORRIN L. LEE
And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn'...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON
Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will.
STEPHEN KING
Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that...
RANDY NEWMAN
I thought to myself, 'No matter what happens from now on, even if my heart ends up in pieces, this m...
SOPHIE HANNAH
until you prove what is in you, what is in you shall always be what is in you
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
When you think that you have it all, think again!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
BOB MARLEY
Happiness isn't a constant. You get fleeting glimpses. You have to fight for those moments, but they...
TAYLOR SWIFT
I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a b...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY
I always say you have to be willing to get your heart broken.
RONDA ROUSEY
I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are.
MONIKA ZANDS
You have what others don't have. This is good news which means you can do what others can't do! You ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
We feel we have the best anglers in the world. (Rojas') is a pretty big record to be broken, but if ...
DON RUCKS
I'm the living embodiment of 'it could be worse'.
DAN HOWELL
I appreciate the fact that you have one redeeming quality, Jack, but that is all it is. Just a hint ...
K.A. LINDE
I think humans might be like butterflies; people die every day without many other people knowing abo...
C. JOYBELL C.
Wrong?
So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ...
DEYTH BANGER
To have more... Be more. Do more. Give more.
LORRIN L. LEE
Are you being the best you can be? Are you doing the best you can do? Do you have the best you can h...
LORRIN L. LEE
DO what you LOVE. BE with those you LOVE. HAVE the things you LOVE.
LORRIN L. LEE
How many times can a heart be broken before it is beyond mend?
TARRYN FISHER
Do. Then talk. In that order.
SOTERO M LOPEZ II
If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you.
Either you just let the grudge go, or mak...
TOBA BETA
You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you a...
PAULO COELHO
It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL
These $40 burgers with foie gras and truffles and all of that flies in the face of one of the most p...
ADAM RICHMAN
Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE
How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???

What's the idea???
DEYTH BANGER
This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
ELIZABETH GILBERT
How many more of us are faking the facade? How many more of us are pretending to be something we're ...
KATIE MCGARRY
I've had my heart broken, and it's not fun. But I'd rather have my heart broken than bre...
JOSH HARTNETT
Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT
The same ocean of love became the ocean of sorrow in which I drowned... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN
I love my destruction. Cause I still love the cause of my destruction -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN
She broke her own heart by holding him into it.... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN
She craved for the moon, not knowing there were other stars in the sky too... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN
You know your value, Only when someone else crumbles it... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN
To be street smart it takes respect of a persons ability to control their emotional state and to kno...
GARY F EVANS...
Just like any one of us, they started with no road map or guarantee of success. But they went out an...
CAMILLE SWEENEY
His name was engraved deep in the core of her heart.. - Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN
I will lock my feelings up and throw the key in the ocean till someone comes, ready to hunt the dept...
ANSHIKA JAIN
It's funny.. I still love the person who made me lose my ability to love... -Anshika.
ANSHIKA JAIN
Its like I'm a broken mirror.. Don't try to pick my shattered pieces or you will hurt yourself .... ...
ANSHIKA JAIN
The story was so broken that no one could ever find the missing pieces.... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN
Their story was just a chapter to him... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN
You can't be a pussy all your life Todd. Someday you're just gonna have to say fuck it.
DONALD RAY POLLOCK
Fortunately, my care factor was now dangerously close to fuck-it levels.
KYLIE SCOTT
It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
From the way that people have always talked about your heart being broken, it sort of seemed to be a...
HEATHER O'NEILL
It will be foolish not to get your heart broken, even once.
For having a broken heart makes you...
SANHITA BARUAH
And love is always complicated. But still humans most try to love each other, darling. We must get o...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY
I know what it's like to have my heart broken. It is not adorable.
RASHIDA JONES
I have been saddened a whole life time, it will not bother me any longer
BEN OAK
The machine demanded access codes. As he entered the first, a faint whispering sound startled him, c...
CHRISTINA ENGELA
Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.
TORI AMOS
If a company is distributing images and video then obviously they need bandwidth solutions. But if t...
JACK LONDON (IT SPECIALIST)
My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possib...
C.S. LEWIS
It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN
There are so many people who are arguing or fighting over issues which don't have much relevance...
KALPANA CHAWLA
I have a good imagination. Look, I know what it feels like to have a broken heart. I know what it fe...
DIANE WARREN
You teach me now how cruel you've been - cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray...
EMILY BRONTë
You own the first day of your life. You own the last. And you own everything in between.
KEVIN ABDULRAHMAN
Be curious, ask questions
SOTONYE ANGA

More L.M. Montgomery

You see," she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
True friends are always together in spirit. (Anne Shirley)
L.M. MONTGOMERY
When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative pe...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
But if you call me Anne, please call me Anne with an 'e'.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
I'm not a bit changed--not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real ME--back her...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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
Miss Barry was a kindred spirit after all," Anne confided to Marilla, "You wouldn't think so to look...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it... Yet.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth ha...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?
L.M. MONTGOMERY
It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able t...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
It was November--the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go o...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome pe...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they ca...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be an...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell wh...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and th...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
It always amazes me to look at the little, wrinkled brown seeds and think of the rainbows in 'em," s...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
In this life you've got to hope for the best, prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
…always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comf...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelica...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert her
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
But I'd rather look like you than be pretty," she told Anne sincerely.

Anne laughed, sipp...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
My pen shall heal, not hurt.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
I'm afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and w...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has fo...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight ri...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather d...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
She had a way of embroidering life with stars.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Anyone who has sympathy and understanding to give has a treasure that is without money and without p...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Anne laughed.

"I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!
L.M. MONTGOMERY
I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
...And every day in heaven will be more beautiful than the one before it Davy," assured Anne.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Oh, I know I'm a great trial to you, Marilla," said Anne repentantly. "I make so many mistakes. But ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
I will keep faith, Walter," she said steadily. "I will work ­and teach ­and learn ­and laugh, yes...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
It is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time." - Anne Shirley
L.M. MONTGOMERY
...a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it. And they do not know ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile an...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
I love bright red drinks, don’t you? They taste twice as good as any other color.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonel...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
A girl who would fall in love so easily or want a man to love her so easily would probably get over ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands fo...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
I'm afraid to speak or move for fear that all this wonderful beauty will just vanish... like a broke...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures whic...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
[...] I grew up out of that strange, dreamy childhood of mine and went into the world of reality. I ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surr...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out a...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At le...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
All life lessons are not learned at college,' she thought. 'Life teaches them everywhere.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
For a moment Anne's heart fluttered queerly and for the first time her eyes faltered under Gilbert's...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is. So ther...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
All things great are wound up with all things little.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not fo...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Make them do as you want them to," she said.
"I can’t," mourned Anne. "Averil is such an unma...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Oh, Charlotta dear, I'd have told you all about it if it were my secret...but it's Miss Lavendar's, ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
You'll stay right here with me, Anne-girl," said Gilbert lazily. "I won't have you flying away from ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Anne, look here. Can’t we be good friends?”
For a moment Anne hesitated. She had an odd, ne...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Gi...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Josie is a Pye,” said Marilla sharply, “so she can’t help being disagreeable. I suppose people...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Isn't it good just to be a live on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missin...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair."
— Anne Shirley
L.M. MONTGOMERY
One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people wh...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
We ought always to try to influence others for good.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
There be three gentle and goodlie things,
To be here,
To be together,
And to think w...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your ow...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
There are moments when we have real fun because, just for the moment, we don't think about things an...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Don't be fretting...about me marrying. Marrying's a trouble and not marrying's a trouble and I stick...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
I don't say Valancy deliberately murdered these lovers as she outgrew them. One simply faded away as...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
I don't like places or people either that haven't any faults. I think that a truly perfect person wo...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'...
L.M. MONTGOMERY
I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
It had always seemed to Emily, ever since she could remember, that she was very, very near to a worl...
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
L.M. MONTGOMERY