Sy Montgomery Quotes

My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it

Look! Look! If you look really hard at things you'll forget you're going to die.

People who haven’t red hair don’t know what trouble is.

There's nothing terrible in death; 'Tis but to cast our robes away, And sleep at night, without a breath To break repose till dawn of day.

Are you really listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

Maples are such sociable trees ... They're always rustling and whispering to you.

I must get out all my ambitions and dust them.

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

It only seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.

An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.

Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.

There are many worse friends than the soft, silent, furry, cat-folk.

Television is such a mediocre medium.

Look, do you see that poem?' she said suddenly, pointing.

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

I think everyone has spiritual encounters and feelings but I don't think everyone chooses to acknowledge them.

I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I'm sure they would be very beautiful.

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

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

The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.

Everything that's worth having is some trouble.

I got a standard box. I don't never want nothing special. Then if I drop my box, I can borrow somebody else's.

Why, I've never even had a quarrel with any one. I haven't an enemy. What a spineless thing I must be not to have even one enemy!

It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?

Besides, I've been feeling a little blue — just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker.

Thank goodness air and salvation are still free...and so is laughter.

I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.

The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.

Great witch, tough woman.

I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit.

You can make your mind sharper, you can get sharper with time.

Saying one's prayers isn't exactly the same thing as praying.

I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy, just independently lazy, I suppose.

That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs.

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.

True friends are always together in spirit.

That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

As o'er the stormy sea of human Life We sail, until our anchor'd spirits rest In the far haven of Eternity.

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.

To dispair is to turn your back on God.

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.

I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.

Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.

I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.

When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.