Lucy Quotes

"Oh, sometimes, I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came." ~ Anne Of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery "After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string." ~ Anne Of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery "If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet," said Priscilla. ~ Anne Of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery "Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thank goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin." ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery "You must pay the penalty of growing-up, Paul. You must leave fairyland behind you." ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery "It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone," said Anne, shuddering. ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts. ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery "I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful." ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant. ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery She discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms. ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery