Quotes From "Annes House Of Dreams" By L.m. Montgomery

I'd like to add some beauty to life, " said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born. L.m. Montgomery

But pearls are for tears, the old legend says, " Gilbert had objected." I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes–when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables–when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had–when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy." -Anne. L.m. Montgomery

Our library isn't very extensive, " said Anne, "but every book in it is a friend. We've picked our books up through the years, here and there, never buying one until we had first read it and knew that it belonged to the race of Joseph. L.m. Montgomery

Even when I'm alone I have real good company – dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships – and nice, jolly little times with people. L.m. Montgomery

I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn't be I – as if I must have changed into somebody else and couldn't get used to it. It gives me a horrible lonely, dazed, helpless feeling. It's good to see you again – it seems as if you were a sort of anchor for my drifting soul. L.m. Montgomery

A woman cannot ever be sure of not being married till she is buried, Mrs. Doctor, dear, and meanwhile I will make a batch of cherry pies. L.m. Montgomery

She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone. L.m. Montgomery

I suppose all this sounds very crazy – all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken – only felt and endured. L.m. Montgomery

…but youth yearned to youth. L.m. Montgomery

I never fancied cats much till I found the First Mate, " he remarked, to the accompaniment of the Mate's tremendous purrs. "I saved his life, and when you've saved a creature's life you're bound to love it. It's next thing to giving life. L.m. Montgomery

All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer – one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going – one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world. L.m. Montgomery

Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers! ' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you. L.m. Montgomery

I never see a ship sailing out of the channel, or a gull soaring over the sand-bar, without wishing I were on board the ship or had wings, not like a dove 'to fly away and be at rest, ’ but like a gull, to sweep out into the very heart of the storm. L.m. Montgomery

It's the worst kind of cruelty – the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it. L.m. Montgomery