The future is yet an untrodden path full of wonderful possibilities.
L.M. MontgomeryBut oughtn't we to be prepared for the best too? It's just as likely to happen as the worst.
L.M. MontgomeryIt does people good to have to do things they don't like...in moderation.
L.M. MontgomeryHow horrible it is that people have to grow up!
L.M. MontgomeryLife is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
If Gilbert had been asked to describe his ideal woman the description would have answered point for point to Anne … He had made up his mind, also, that his future must be worthy of its goddess. … But he meant to keep himself worthy of Anne’s friendship and perhaps some distant day her love; and he watched over word and thought and deed as jealously as if her clear eyes were to pass in judgment on it.
L.M. MontgomeryIt's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.
L.M. MontgomeryOh, Mr. Cuthbert," she whispered, that place we came through--that white place--what was it?"
"Well now, you must mean the Avenue," said Matthew after a few moments' profound reflection. "It is a kind of pretty place."
"Pretty? Oh, PRETTY doesn't seem the right word to use. Nor beautiful, either. They don't go far enough. Oh, it was wonderful--wonderful. It's the first thing I ever saw that couldn't be improved upon by imagination. It just satisfies me here"--she put one hand on her breast--"it made a queer funny ache and yet it was a pleasant ache. Did you ever have an ache like that, Mr. Cuthbert?"
"Well now, I just can't recollect that I ever had."
"I have it lots of time--whenever I see anything royally beautiful. But they shouldn't call that lovely place the Avenue. There is no meaning in a name like that. They should call it--let me see--the White Way of Delight. Isn't that a nice imaginative name?
When weeds go to heaven, I suppose they will be flowers.
L.M. MontgomeryTags: heaven flowers weeds lm-montgomery the-story-girl
Dreams don’t often come true, do they? Wouldn’t it be nice if they did?
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