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Lucy Maud Montgomery

Some quotes from the works of Lucy Maud Montgomery......
who, with a few words ,could paint glorious and fanciful pictures in the mind of all of her readers, both, young and old...

"I was born in the little village of Clifton, Prince Edward Island. "Old Prince Edward Island" is a good place in which to be born a good place in which to spend a childhood. I can think of none better."~ The Alpine Path

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"If voices had colour, hers would have been like a rainbow. It made words live. Whatever she said became a breathing entity, not a mere verbal statement or utterance." - The Story Girl

"Oh, but it's good to be alive and to be going home... I've had a splendid time-- it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home..." Anne of Green Gables

"Every morn is a new beginning, every morn is a world made new." Anne of Avonlea

" What a splendid day!... I pity people who aren't born yet for missing it.
They may have good days, of course, but they can never have this one." Anne of Green Gables

"Good friends are always together in spirit" Anne of Green Gables

"I'd rather walk calmly along and do without the flying and the thud ..." Marilla Cuthbert

"~Every experience enriches life and the deeper such
an experience, the greater the richness it brings.~"

"I wake up in the morning and she is there.
She is there as I close my eyes at night.
Her presence is a comfort, a beacon,
A rock I cling to when I'm afraid.
She is my champion, my inspiration, my guide.
A Mother's Love is unselfish, kind.
A Mother's Love is wise, full hearted, the deepest well.
And though she did not give me birth,
She loves me as a mother would."
~ Road to Avonlea ~ A Mother's Love

"Nothing mattered but her story. The characters came to life under her
hand and swarmed through her consciousness, vivid, alluring, compelling.
Wit, tears, and laughter trickled from her pen. She lived and breathed in
another world and came back to New Moon only at dawn to find her lamp burnt
out and her table littered with manuscript - the first four chapters of her
book. Her book! What magic and delight and awe and incredulity in the
thought." % Emily's Quest % LMM

"It was a time of wonder and marvel, of the soft touch of silver rain on the greening fields, of the incredible delicacy of young leaves, of blossom in field, and garden and wood. The whole world bloomed in a flush and tremor of maiden lovliness, instinct and evasive, fleeting charm of spring, and girlhood and young morning. We felt and enjoyed it without understanding or analyzing it. It was enough to be gald and young with spring on the golden
road."-%The Golden Road%

"Shadow's are such pretty things. The Orchard is full of them this very minute. Sometimes they are so still that you would think them asleep. Then they go laughing and skipping. Outside, in the oat field, they are always
chasing each other. They are the wild shadows. The shadows in the Orchard are the tame ones." ~ the Story Girl

THE POET'S THOUGHT

It came to him in rainbow dreams,
Blent with the wisdom of the sages,
Of spirit and of passion born;
In words as lucent as the morn
He prisoned it, and now it gleams
A jewel shining through the ages.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Writer, Director and Producer, Kevin Sullivan who was responsible for bringing the words of LM Montgomery to the television and movie screen. "Anne of Green Gables", "Anne of Green Gables ...the Continuing Story ( aka; "Anne of Avonlea") "Anne 3" and the television series "Road to Avonlea.

Some LMM books...

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"Once apon a time we all walked on the golden road. IT was a fair highway,
through the Land of Lost Delight; shadow and sunshine were blessedly
mingled, and every turn and dip revealed a fresh charm and a new loveliness
to eager hearts and unspoiled eyes.

On that road we heard the song of morning stars; we drank in fragrances
aerial and sweet as a May mist; we were rich in gossamer fancies and iris
hopes; our hearts sought and found the boon of dreams; the years waited
beyond and they were very fair; life was a rose-lipped comrade with purple
flowers dripping from her fingers.

We may long have left the golden road behind, but its memories are dearest
of our eternal possessions; and in the pages of this book, whose people are
pilgrims on the golden road of youth."

% Golden Road %

"[The wind] sang of the dreams of youth that may never quite be fulfilled, but are well worth the dreaming for all that. God help the man who has never known such dreams- ... He has missed his birthright."~Kilmeny of the Orchard

'There is a great solitude about such a shore. The woods are never solitary ; they are full of whispering, beckoning friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul forever moaning of some great unshareable sorrow that shuts it up into itself for eternity. You can never pierce into its great mystery ; you can only wander awed and spellbound on the outer frame of it . . . The woods call you with a hundred voices but the sea has only one ; a mighty voice that drowns your soul in its majestic music. The woods are human but the sea is of the company of the archangels.' (Letter Written by LMM To Ephraim Weber, 10 Nov. 1907)

"Anne revelled in the drive to the hall, slipping along over the satin-smooth roads with the snow crisping under the runners. There was a magnificent sunset, and the snowy hills and deep blue water of the St. Lawerence Gulf seemed to rim in the splendour like a huge bowl of pearl and sapphire brimmed with wine and fire. Tinkles of sleigh-bells and distant
laughter, that seemed like the mirth of wood elves, came from every quarter." ~ Anne of Green Gables ~

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