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  • #1
    L.M. Montgomery
    “My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #2
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.”
    Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #3
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #4
    L.M. Montgomery
    “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?”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

  • #5
    L.M. Montgomery
    “After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

  • #6
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

  • #7
    L.M. Montgomery
    “I'm just tired of everything…even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes…echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

  • #8
    L.M. Montgomery
    “At seventeen dreams DO satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you farther on.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

  • #9
    Madeline Miller
    “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #10
    Madeline Miller
    “He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #11
    Madeline Miller
    “What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another. We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory… We are men only, a brief flare of the torch.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #12
    Laura Gallego García
    “-No tengas miedo -susurro entonces Xein en la oscuridad-. Aquí estas a salvo, te lo prometo.”
    Laura Gallego García, El bestiario de Axlin

  • #13
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.”
    Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

  • #14
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!”
    Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

  • #15
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “I daresay it seems foolish; perhaps all our earthly trials will appear foolish to us after a while; perhaps they seem so now to angels. But we are ourselves, you know, and this is now, not some time to come, a long, long way off. And we are not angels, to be comforted by seeing the ends for which everything is sent.”
    Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

  • #16
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “I think that if advice is good it's the best comfort.”
    Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

  • #17
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Anne laughed.

    "I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island
    tags: love

  • #18
    L.M. Montgomery
    “I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

  • #19
    L.M. Montgomery
    “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.”
    Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of the Island

  • #20
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

  • #21
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

  • #22
    L.M. Montgomery
    “It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen ... wonderful things.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

  • #23
    L.M. Montgomery
    “she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

  • #24
    L.M. Montgomery
    “Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.”
    L.M. Montegomery, Anne of the Island

  • #25
    L.M. Montgomery
    “You don't know love when you see it. You've tricked something out with your imagination that you think love, and you expect the real thing to look like that.”
    L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

  • #26
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #27
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #28
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Where did you go to, if I may ask?' said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along.
    To look ahead,' said he.
    And what brought you back in the nick of time?'
    Looking behind,' said he.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #29
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #30
    L.M. Montgomery
    “But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about?”
    L.M. Montgomery , Anne of Windy Poplars



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