#montgomery

I'm so glad you're here, Anne,' said Miss Lavendar, nibbling at her candy. 'If you weren't I should be blue…very blue…almost navy blue. Dreams and make-believes are all very well in the daytime and the sunshine, but when dark and storm come they fail to satisfy. One wants real things then. But you don't know this…seventeen never knows it. At seventeen dreams do satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you further on. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#l-m-montgomery #seventeen #dreams

I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived. ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

#greatest #guitarist #i #i think #jazz

Perhaps it was nothing very dreadful after all. I think the little things in life often make more trouble than the big things,' said Anne with one of those flashes of insight which experience could not have bettered. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#experience

But the trouble is there aren't any bends in my road. I can see it stretching straight out before me to the sky-line…endless monotony. Oh, does life ever frighten you, Anne, with its blankness…its swarms of cold, uninteresting people? ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#life

I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me… ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#l-m-montgomery #love

That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#nonsense #nonsense

I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#love #love

Why do I always have to remind you to look to where the danger waits, Warrior. Sheesh, what would you do without me? “Uh, not be a murderous psycho?” Very funny. ↗

— H.D. Gordon

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That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

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Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#disappointment #expectations #misattributed #l-m-montgomery