Emily's Quest Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

“It is hard to understand why work should be called a curse—until one remembers what bitterness forced or uncongenial labour is. But the work for which we are fitted—which we feel we are sent into the world to do—what a blessing it is and what fullness of joy it holds.”
― L.M. Montgomery, 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, 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, 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, Emily's Quest

“Oh, I am—I am lonely—with the loneliness of unshared thought.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest

“Then she lifted her face and smiled gallantly at the empty sky. ‘There will be other rainbows.’ she said.
Emily was a chaser of rainbows.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Emily's Quest

“For, disguise the fact as we will, when friends, even the closest—perhaps the more because of that very closeness—meet again after a separation there is always a chill, lesser or greater, of change. Neither finds the other quite the same. This is natural and inevitable. Human nature is ever growing or retrogressing—never stationary.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest

“I can always get through today very easily. It's tomorrow I can't live through.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest

“I know that into everybody’s life must come some days of depression and discouragement when all things in life seem to lose savour. The sunniest day has its clouds; but one must not forget that the sun is there all the time.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Emily's Quest

“I went 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 and has a fancy.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Emily's Quest

“She wanted summer; fields of daisies; seas misty with moonrise or purple with sunset; companionship; Teddy. In such moments she always knew she wanted Teddy.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Emily's Quest

“Don’t let a three-o’clock-at-night feeling fog your soul.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Emily's Quest

“The ghostly hands of a fitful wind played with her hair. The perfume of June lilies stole in from the bed under the open window---a haunting odour, sweeter than music, like all the lost perfumes of old, unutterably dear years. Far off, two beautiful, slender, black firs, of exactly the same height, came out against the silver dawn-lit sky like the twin spires of some Gothic cathedral rising out of a bank of silver mist. Just between them hung a dim old moon, as beautiful as the evening crescent. Their beauty was a comfort and stimulant to Emily under the stress of the strange vigil. Whatever passed---whatever came---beauty like this was eternal.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, 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, Emily's Quest