Lucy Maud Montgomery

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

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

Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them.

Its delightful when your imaginations come true isnt it

No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.

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.

It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.

It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry.

it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine

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

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.

That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

Red hair is my life long sorrow.

Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.

Oh its delightful to have ambitions. Im so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them thats the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

A favor is never so long lived as a grudge.

The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.

A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.