L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs Quotes

There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)

Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)

My pen shall heal, not hurt.

Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth

Fear is a vile thing, and is at the bottom of almost every wrong and hatred of the world.

Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.

No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.

I have made up my mind that I will never marry. I shall be wedded to my art.

Lovely thoughts came flying to meet me like birds. They weren't my thoughts. I couldn't think anything half so exquisite. They came from somewhere.

[Ilse] was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain.

He was so lonely that he laughed at himself.

Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own.