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L. M. Montgomery quotes about thinking

Canadian Author November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942

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Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven. L. M. Montgomery
When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud. But really, Marilla, the flying part is glorious as long as it lasts...it's like soaring through a sunset. I think it almost pays for the thud. L. M. Montgomery
Well, it all comes to this; there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in your own. After all, I believe in myself. I'm not so bad and silly as they think me, and I'm not consumptive, and I can write. Now that I've written it all out I feel differently about it. The only thing that still aggravates me is that Miss Potter pitied me -- pitied by a Potter! L. M. Montgomery
L. M. Montgomery quote: "I hope you don't think I'm one of those terrible people who..."
I hope you don't think I'm one of those terrible people who make you feel that you have to talk to them all the time. L. M. Montgomery
They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla? L. M. Montgomery
Babies are such fascinating creatures," said Anne dreamily. "They are what I heard somebody at Redmond call 'terrific bundles of potentialities.' Think of it, Katherine . . . Homer must have been a baby once . . . a baby with dimples and great eyes full of light . . . he couldn't have been blind then, of course. L. M. Montgomery
I wonder what a soul…a person's soul…would look like,' said Priscilla dreamily. 'Like that, I should think,' answered Anne, pointing to a radiance of sifted sunlight streaming through a birch tree. 'Only with shape and features of course. I like to fancy souls as being made of light. And some are all shot through with rosy stains and quivers…and some have a soft glitter like moonlight on the sea…and some are pale and transparent like mist at dawn. L. M. Montgomery
You're not eating anything," said Marilla sharply, eying her as if it were a serious shortcoming. Anne sighed. I can't. I'm in the depths of despair. Can you eat whenyou are in the depths of despair?"I've never been in the depths of despair, so I can't say," responded Marilla. Weren't you? Well, did you ever try to IMAGINE you were inthe depths of despair?"No, I didn't."Then I don't think you can understand what it's like. It's very uncomfortable a feeling indeed. L. M. Montgomery
...“Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne. “You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, ‘Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.’ But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.”... L. M. Montgomery
L. M. Montgomery quote: "It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good..."
It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think. L. M. Montgomery
She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity. L. M. Montgomery
L. M. Montgomery quote: "It would be so much easier to be good if one’s hair was..."
It would be so much easier to be good if one’s hair was handsome auburn, don’t you think? L. M. Montgomery
L. M. Montgomery quote: "Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets?"
Do you think amethysts can be the souls of good violets? L. M. Montgomery
L. M. Montgomery quote: "At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities..."
At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on. L. M. Montgomery
L. M. Montgomery quote: "It is not," Valency could hear her mother's prim, dictatorial..."
It is not," Valency could hear her mother's prim, dictatorial voice asserting, "it is not MAIDENLY to think about MEN. L. M. Montgomery

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