Quotes from Emily's Quest

“It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from Emily's Quest

“You see," she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from Emily's Quest

“Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from Emily's Quest

“Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from Emily's Quest

“Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from Emily's Quest

“The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from Emily's Quest

“A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from Emily's Quest

“Don't let a three-o'clock-at-night feeling fog your soul.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from Emily's Quest

“I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen in halls of fancy.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from Emily's Quest

“Since ever the world was spinning
And till the world shall end
You've your man in the beginning
Or you have him in the end,
But to have him from start to finish
And neither nor borrow nor lend
Is what all of the girls are wanting
And none of the gods can send”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from Emily's Quest

“Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from Emily's Quest

“This afternoon I sat at my window and alternately wrote at my new serial and watched a couple of dear, amusing, youngish maple-trees at the foot of the garden. They whispered secrets to each other all the afternoon. They would bend together and talk earnestly for a few moments, then spring back and look at each other, throwing up their hands comically in horror and amazement over their mutual revelations. I wonder what new scandal is afoot in Treeland.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from Emily's Quest

“If the bards of old the true has told
The sirens have raven hair.
But over the earth since art had birth,
They paint the angels fair.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from Emily's Quest

“Oh, I don't wonder babies always cry when they wake up in the night. So often I want to do it too.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from Emily's Quest

“An old house that had lived its life long ago and so was very quiet and wise and a little mysterious. Also a little austere, but very kind.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from Emily's Quest

“Can you expect me to be just when you've just killed me? Oh, I know I asked for it--I know it's good for me. Horrible things always are good for you, I suppose. After you've been killed a few times you don't mind it. But the first time one does--squirm. Go away, Dean. Don't come back for a week at least. The funeral will be over then."

"Don't you believe I know what this means to you, Star?" asked Dean pityingly.

"You can't--altogether. Oh, I know you're sympathetic. I don't want sympathy. I only want time to bury myself decently.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from Emily's Quest

“Such presumption," said Aunt Laura, meaning for a Dix to aspire to a Murray. "It wasn't because of his presumption I packed him off," said Emily. "It was because of the way he made love. He made a thing ugly that should have been beautiful." "I suppose you wouldn't have him because he didn't propose romantically," said Aunt Elizabeth contemptuously. "No. I think my real reason was that I felt sure he was the kind of man who would give his wife a vacuum cleaner for a Christmas present," vowed Emily.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from Emily's Quest

“I can always get through to-day very nicely. It's to-morrow I can't live through”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from Emily's Quest

“Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade.”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from Emily's Quest

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