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Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables.

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Quotes from Lucy Maud Montgomery

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

When I make up my mind to do a thing it stays made up.

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us.

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

One can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

Don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away.

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them. You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

There's such a difference between saying a thing yourself and hearing other people say it. You may know a thing is so, but you can't help hoping other people don't quite think it is.

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

—Lucy Maud Montgomery