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Lucy Maud Montgomery , published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. Anne Shirley, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following.The first novel was followed by a series of sequels with Anne as the central character. Montgomery went on to publish 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays. Most of the novels were set in Prince Edward Island, and locations within Canada's smallest province became a literary landmark and popular tourist site – namely Green Gables farm, the genesis of Prince Edward Island National Park. She was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1935.

Montgomery's work, diaries and letters have been read and studied by scholars and readers worldwide. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. November 1874 – 24. April 1942   •   Other names L.M. Montgomery
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Anne of the Island
Anne of the Island
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of Windy Poplars
Anne of Windy Poplars
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Famous Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

“What a comfort one familiar face is in a howling wilderness of strangers!”

Lucy Maud Montgomery book Anne of the Island

Source: Anne of the Island (1915), Ch. 3

“Life had taught her to be brave, to be patient, to love, to forgive.”

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Source: Rainbow Valley (1919), Ch. 13

“I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.”

Lucy Maud Montgomery

“I remembered Elizabeth had never laughed once during our talk. I feel that she hasn't learned how. The great house is so still and lonely and laughterless. It looks dull and gloomy even now when the world is a riot of autumn color. Little Elizabeth is doing too much listening to lost whispers.
I think one of my missions in Summerside will be to teach her how to laugh.”

Lucy Maud Montgomery book Anne of Windy Poplars

Part 1, Ch. 2
Anne of Windy Poplars (1936)

“"I wended my way to the graveyard this evening," wrote Anne to Gilbert after she got home. "I think 'wend your way' is a lovely phrase and I work it in whenever I can. It sounds funny to say I enjoyed my stroll in the graveyard but I really did. Miss Courtaloe's stories were so funny. Comedy and tragedy are so mixed up in life, Gilbert. The only thing that haunts me is that tale of the two who lived together fifty years and hated each other all that time. I can't believe they really did. Somebody has said that 'hate is only love that has missed its way.' I feel sure that under the hatred they really loved each other… just as I really loved you all those years I thought I hated you… and I think death would show it to them."”

Lucy Maud Montgomery book Anne of Windy Poplars

Part 1, Ch. 6
Anne of Windy Poplars (1936)

“Be the day short or be the day long, at last it weareth to evening song.”

Lucy Maud Montgomery book Anne of Windy Poplars

Part 1, Ch. 13
Anne of Windy Poplars (1936)

Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes about thinking

“We stood there and talked while Elizabeth sipped her milk daintily and she told me all about Tomorrow. The Woman had told her that Tomorrow never comes, but Elizabeth knows better. It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen... wonderful things. She may even have a day to do exactly as she likes in, with nobody watching her... though I think Elizabeth feels that is too good to happen even in Tomorrow. Or she may find out what is at the end of the harbor road... that wandering, twisting road like a nice red snake, that leads, so Elizabeth thinks, to the end of the world. Perhaps the Island of Happiness is there. Elizabeth feels sure there is an Island of Happiness somewhere where all the ships that never come back are anchored, and she will find it when Tomorrow comes.”

Lucy Maud Montgomery book Anne of Windy Poplars

Part 1, Ch. 2
Anne of Windy Poplars (1936)

“It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.”

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Source: Rainbow Valley (1919), Ch. 13

“But she lay long awake that night, nor did she wish for sleep. Her waking fancies were more alluring than any vision of dreamland. Had the real Prince come at last? Recalling those glorious dark eyes which had gazed so deeply into her own, Anne was very strongly inclined to think he had.”

Lucy Maud Montgomery book Anne of the Island

Source: Anne of the Island (1915), Ch. 25

Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

“They did not talk or want to talk. It was as if they were afraid to talk for fear of spoiling something beautiful. But Anne had never felt so near Katherine Brooke before. By some magic of its own the winter night had brought them together... almost together but not quite.
When they came out to the main road and a sleigh flashed by, bells ringing, laughter tinkling, both girls gave an involuntary sigh. It seemed to both that they were leaving behind a world that had nothing in common with the one to which they were returning... a world where time was not... which was young with immortal youth... where souls communed with each other in some medium that needed nothing so crude as words.”

Lucy Maud Montgomery book Anne of Windy Poplars

Part 2, Ch. 5
Anne of Windy Poplars (1936)

Youth , World , Fear , Beauty

“Her confusion put him at ease and he forgot to be shy; besides, even the shyest of men can sometimes be quite audacious in moonlight.”

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Source: Rainbow Valley (1919), Ch. 13

Men

“But feeling is so different from knowing.”

Lucy Maud Montgomery book Anne of the Island

My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.
Source: Anne of the Island (1915), Ch. 2

Feeling

“She found, however, that revenge hurts nobody quite so much as the one who tries to inflict it.”

Lucy Maud Montgomery book Anne of the Island

Source: Anne of the Island (1915), Ch. 2

Hurt , Revenge

“Gilbert was friendly—very friendly—far too friendly…. But Anne no longer found it satisfying. The rose of love made the blossom of friendship pale and scentless by contrast.”

Lucy Maud Montgomery book Anne of the Island

Source: Anne of the Island (1915), Ch. 41

Love , Making love , Friendship

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