{"author":"L.M. Montgomery","author_id":"L.M.+Montgomery","total_quotes":294,"quotes":[{"text":"What's the matter with you, Penny? You're not as good looking as you generally believe you are.","author":"L.M. Montgomery","tags":["aunt-becky","penny","vanity"],"id":603,"author_id":"L.M.+Montgomery"},{"text":"After all,' Anne had said to Marilla once, 'I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.","author":"L.M. Montgomery","tags":["home","inspirational","pearls","pleasures","simple"],"id":805,"author_id":"L.M.+Montgomery"},{"text":"...“Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne. “You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, ‘Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.’ But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.”...","author":"L.M. Montgomery","tags":["disappointment","expectations"],"id":2289,"author_id":"L.M.+Montgomery"},{"text":"He was so lonely that he laughed at himself.","author":"L.M. Montgomery","tags":["emily","lonely","new-moon"],"id":8360,"author_id":"L.M.+Montgomery"},{"text":"It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.","author":"L.M. Montgomery","tags":["clothes","fashion"],"id":8494,"author_id":"L.M.+Montgomery"},{"text":"Then the immortal heart of the woods will beat against ours and its subtle life will steal into our veins and make us its own forever, so that no matter where we go or how widely we wander we shall yet be drawn back to the forest to find our most enduring kinship.","author":"L.M. Montgomery","tags":["nature"],"id":12445,"author_id":"L.M.+Montgomery"},{"text":"Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.","author":"L.M. Montgomery","tags":["l-m-montgomery","words"],"id":13830,"author_id":"L.M.+Montgomery"},{"text":"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.","author":"L.M. Montgomery","tags":["dreams","l-m-montgomery","seventeen"],"id":14124,"author_id":"L.M.+Montgomery"},{"text":"Oh, this is the most TRAGICAL thing that ever happened to me!","author":"L.M. Montgomery","tags":["funny"],"id":15069,"author_id":"L.M.+Montgomery"},{"text":"March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.","author":"L.M. Montgomery","tags":["march","winter"],"id":16295,"author_id":"L.M.+Montgomery"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":294,"pages":30,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}