#anne of green gables quote
“The Piper is coming nearer,” he said, “he is nearer than he was that evening I saw him before. His long, shadowy cloak is blowing around him. He pipes—he pipes—and we must follow—Jem and Carl and Jerry and I—round and round the world. Listen—listen—can’t you hear his wild music?”
L. M. Montgomery (Rainbow Valley, “Let the Piper Come”)
“I was a whole lot frightened,” said honest Walter. “But I’m not going to be frightened any more, sir. Being frightened of things is worse than the things themselves. I’m going to ask father to take me over to Lowbridge to-morrow to get my tooth out.”
L. M. Montgomery (Rainbow Valley, A Double Victory)
“So that is how you bring up your boys,” said Gilbert with mock severity.
“Perhaps I do spoil them a little,” said Anne contritely, “but, oh, Gilbert, when I think of my own childhood before I came to Green Gables I haven’t the heart to be very strict. How hungry for love and fun I was - an unloved little drudge with never a chance to play! They do have such good times with the manse children.”
L. M. Montgomery (Rainbow Valley, An Explanation and a Dare)
Susan Baker and the Anne Shirley of other days saw her coming, as they sat on the big veranda at Ingleside, enjoying the charm of the cat’s light, the sweetness of sleepy robins whistling among the twilit maples, and the dance of a gusty group of daffodils blowing against the old, mellow, red brick wall of the lawn.
L. M. Montgomery (Rainbow Valley, Home Again)
The Good Book says that favour is deceitful and beauty is vain, but I should not have minded finding that out for myself, if it had been so ordained. I have no doubt we will all be beautiful when we are angels, but what good will it do us then?
L. M. Montgomery (Rainbow Valley, Home Again)
It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished the story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.
L. M. Montgomery (Rainbow Valley, The House on the Hill)
