Death Quote by L.M. Montgomery — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?”

“That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.”

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

“Anne, look here. Can’t we be good friends?”

“...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.”

“Don't give up all your romance, Anne," he whispered shyly, "a little bit is a good thing - not too much, of course, but keep a little of it, Anne, keep a little of it.”

“For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.”

“Not only had my brother disappeared, but--and bear with me here--a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared.”

“How does one become a butterfly?' she asked pensively.”

“A culture that denies death is a barrier to achieving a good death. Overcoming our fears and wild misconceptions about death will be no small task, but we shouldn't forget how quickly other cultural prejudices--racism, sexism, homophobia--have begun to topple in the recent past. It is high time death had its own moment of truth.”

“I must admit that if there was ever going to be a woman to take my mind and heart off of Annette, it would have been Aideen.”

“I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew.”