Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it.
L.M. MontgomeryI love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.
L.M. MontgomeryI read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.
L.M. MontgomeryTags: power-of-words names labels
it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine
L.M. MontgomeryPlum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces
L.M. MontgomeryWe pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.
L.M. MontgomeryTags: anne-of-green-gables ch-36 the-glory-and-the-dream
Without shedding of blood there is no anything… Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by self-sacrifice. Our race has marked every step of its painful ascent with blood. And now torrents of it must flow again… I don’t think the war has been sent as a punishment for sin. I think it is the price humanity must pay for some blessing - some advance great enough to be worth the price which we may not live to see but which our children’s children will inherit.
L.M. MontgomeryTags: life
Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.
L.M. MontgomeryYou can never tell about those Yankees!
L.M. MontgomeryFairyland is the loveliest word because it means everything the human heart desires.
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