#mery

That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#life #life

She looks just as music sounds, I think,' answered Anne. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#music

You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#violets #love

I never met a pig I didn't like. All pigs are intelligent, emotional, and sensitive souls. They all love company. They all crave contact and comfort. Pigs have a delightful sense of mischief; most of them seem to enjoy a good joke and appreciate music. And that is something you would certainly never suspect from your relationship with a pork chop. ↗

— Sy Montgomery

#humor #pigs #sy-mongomery #humor

…unwitting that those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths, and that the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#nature

If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#silence #l-m-montgomery

It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#misunderstanding #l-m-montgomery

You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#rachel-lynde #l-m-montgomery

I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#memory #roses #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

#sadness #l-m-montgomery