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

About 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.

More quotations from 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

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

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

—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

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

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

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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.