10 Meaningful Quotes from L.M Montgomery

November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942

We do love our literary quotes here at For Reading Addicts and even more so when the author of those quotes is as amazing a writer as we have in the author of Anne of Green Gables. Born in Clifton, Prince Edward Island Lucy lost her mother to Tuberculosis at the age of 21 months, her father grief stricken, sent her to live with her maternal grandparents. Her childhood was very strict and she states that her constant loneliness was the catalyst for her literary career.

Such a sad way to have found your niche in life, yet I cannot help but be glad that she did. To honour her literary achievements we have collected together 10 Meaningful Quotes from L.M Montgomery for you to enjoy.

“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”

“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”

“True friends are always together in spirit.”

“I am simply a ‘book drunkard.’ Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.”

“People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven’t you?”

“The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.”

“It’s delightful when your imaginations come true, isn’t it?”

“When you’ve learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn’t, you’ve got wisdom and understanding.”

“I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again — there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no new book can ever have — for at every reading the memories and atmosphere of other readings come back and I am reading old years as well as an old book.”

“You’re never safe from being surprised until you’re dead.”

There were so many amazing quotes to choose from and after reading through them I think I might just have to take some advice from ms Montgomery and re read Anne of Green Gables.