Anne Of Windy Poplars Quotes by Lucy Maud Montgomery and many others.
In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I’m free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you
Have you ever noticed how many silences there are Gilbert? The silence of the woods….of the shore….of the meadows….of the night….of the summer afternoon. All different because the undertones that thread them are different.
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?
You can’t have many exclamation points left,’ thought Anne, ‘but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.
But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them.
You were never poor as long as you had something to love.
Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!
I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.
I’ve always loved the night and I’ll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.
Gilbert, I’m afraid I’m scandalously in love with you.
Heaven grant me patience! Clothes are very important,” said Anne severely
It was really dreadful to be so different from other people…and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.
Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn’t seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.
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.
Gilbert darling, don’t let’s ever be afraid of things. It’s such dreadful slavery. Let’s be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let’s dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!” (Anne to Gilbert)
