#l m montgomery

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)