Thank goodness air and salvation are still free...and so is laughter.
L.M. MontgomeryIt’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.
L.M. MontgomeryI will keep faith, Walter," she said steadily. "I will work and teach and learn and laugh, yes, I will even laugh through all my years, because of you and because of what you gave when you followed the call.
L.M. MontgomeryOh, drat the men! No matter what they do, it's the wrong thing. And no matter who they are, it's somebody they shouldn't be. They do exasperate me.
L.M. MontgomeryTag: humorous-quotations
I'm sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood.
L.M. MontgomeryTag: nature
[speaking of a friend named Lavendar Lewis] 'I think her parents gave her the only right and fitting name that could possibly be given her,' said Anne. 'If they had been so blind as to name her Elizabeth or Nellie or Muriel she must have been called Lavendar just the same, I think. It's so suggestive of sweetness and old-fashioned graces and "silk attire." Now, my name just smacks of bread and butter, patchwork and chores.'
'Oh, I don't think so,' said Diana. 'Anne seems to me real stately and like a queen. But I'd like Kerenhappuch if it happened to be your name. I think people make their names nice or ugly just by what they are themselves. I can't bear Josie or Gertie for names now but before I knew the Pye girls I thought them real pretty.'
'That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with...making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself. Thank you, Diana.
Tag: names
Let me remind you that the measure of anyone's freedom is what he can do without.
L.M. MontgomeryTag: inspirational
That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.
L.M. MontgomeryTag: growing-up age forgiveness life-lessons
Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.
L.M. MontgomeryTag: humor anne-of-windy-poplars l-m-montomery
I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.
L.M. MontgomeryTag: comfort beds storms blankets snuggle
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