Frases de Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Es una de las cosas buenas de este mundo. Uno está siempre seguro de que habrá más primaveras. - Ana. Ana de Avonlea”

“No sabes reconocer el amor. Has imaginado el amor como una sensación determinada y quieres que en la vida real sea así.”

“Lo que quiero conseguir del curso en la universidad es algún conocimiento sobre la mejor manera de vivir la vida y sacarle el máximo y mejor provecho. Quiero aprender para entender y ayudar a otra gente y a mí misma. (…) Ese es el fin que debe tener la universidad, en lugar de producir un montón de licenciados y graduados, tan atragantados de libros y vanidad que no les queda sitio para otra cosa.”

“¡Hay tanto en el mundo para nosotros, si tenemos los ojos para verlo, el corazón para amarlo y las manos para acercárnoslo, tanto en hombres y mujeres, en arte y literatura, tanto en todas partes con que deleitarnos y de lo cual quedar agradecidos! Ana de la isla.”

“El humor es el más picante de los condimentos en el festín de la existencia. Ríanse de sus errores pero aprendan de ellos; alégrense en sus penas pero ganen fuerza con ellas; hagan un chiste de las dificultades, pero vénzanlas. Ana de la isla.”

“Piensa en todas las almas nobles y grandes que han vivido y trabajado en el mundo — dijo Ana soñadoramente—. ¿No vale la pena haber llegado después que ellos y heredado sus conquistas y enseñanzas? ¡Y piensa en los grandes hombres que viven hoy en el mundo! ¿No vale la pena pensar que compartimos su inspiración? Y además, los que vendrán en el futuro. ¿No vale la pena trabajar un poquito para prepararles el camino… ayudarles a adelantar aunque sea un solo paso? Ana de la isla.”

“Escribiría sobre gente y lugares que yo conociera, y haría que mis personajes hablaran un lenguaje cotidiano. Y dejaría que el sol se levantara y se pusiera de la forma normal y tranquila que hace normalmente, sin hacer muchas alharacas al respecto. Si tuviera que introducir un villano en mi historia, le daría una oportunidad (…) Supongo que hay algunos hombres malvados en el mundo, pero hay que andar un buen rato para encontrarlos.”

“Creo que la gente hace bonitos o feos a los nombres, según como se comporte - Diana. Ana de Avonlea.”

“A mí me gustaría contribuir a la vida con algo de belleza (…) No quiero hacer solo que la gente sepa más, aunque sé que es la ambición más noble, sino que me encantaría hacerles pasar un rato más agradable gracias a mí; tener una pequeña alegría o un pensamiento feliz que nunca habría existido si yo no hubiera nacido.”

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“Tener aventuras es algo natural para algunas personas - dijo Ana serenamente - O se tienen, o no se tienen los dotes para vivirlas.
Ana de Avonlea”

“part due to accidental circumstances—the”

“What a comfort one familiar face is in a howling wilderness of strangers!”

“I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.”

“I remembered Elizabeth had never laughed once during our talk. I feel that she hasn't learned how. The great house is so still and lonely and laughterless. It looks dull and gloomy even now when the world is a riot of autumn color. Little Elizabeth is doing too much listening to lost whispers.
I think one of my missions in Summerside will be to teach her how to laugh.”

“"I wended my way to the graveyard this evening," wrote Anne to Gilbert after she got home. "I think 'wend your way' is a lovely phrase and I work it in whenever I can. It sounds funny to say I enjoyed my stroll in the graveyard but I really did. Miss Courtaloe's stories were so funny. Comedy and tragedy are so mixed up in life, Gilbert. The only thing that haunts me is that tale of the two who lived together fifty years and hated each other all that time. I can't believe they really did. Somebody has said that 'hate is only love that has missed its way.' I feel sure that under the hatred they really loved each other… just as I really loved you all those years I thought I hated you… and I think death would show it to them."”

“Be the day short or be the day long, at last it weareth to evening song.”

“We stood there and talked while Elizabeth sipped her milk daintily and she told me all about Tomorrow. The Woman had told her that Tomorrow never comes, but Elizabeth knows better. It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen... wonderful things. She may even have a day to do exactly as she likes in, with nobody watching her... though I think Elizabeth feels that is too good to happen even in Tomorrow. Or she may find out what is at the end of the harbor road... that wandering, twisting road like a nice red snake, that leads, so Elizabeth thinks, to the end of the world. Perhaps the Island of Happiness is there. Elizabeth feels sure there is an Island of Happiness somewhere where all the ships that never come back are anchored, and she will find it when Tomorrow comes.”

“They did not talk or want to talk. It was as if they were afraid to talk for fear of spoiling something beautiful. But Anne had never felt so near Katherine Brooke before. By some magic of its own the winter night had brought them together... almost together but not quite.
When they came out to the main road and a sleigh flashed by, bells ringing, laughter tinkling, both girls gave an involuntary sigh. It seemed to both that they were leaving behind a world that had nothing in common with the one to which they were returning... a world where time was not... which was young with immortal youth... where souls communed with each other in some medium that needed nothing so crude as words.”

“It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.”

“Her confusion put him at ease and he forgot to be shy; besides, even the shyest of men can sometimes be quite audacious in moonlight.”

“But she lay long awake that night, nor did she wish for sleep. Her waking fancies were more alluring than any vision of dreamland. Had the real Prince come at last? Recalling those glorious dark eyes which had gazed so deeply into her own, Anne was very strongly inclined to think he had.”

“But feeling is so different from knowing.”

“She found, however, that revenge hurts nobody quite so much as the one who tries to inflict it.”

“Gilbert was friendly—very friendly—far too friendly…. But Anne no longer found it satisfying. The rose of love made the blossom of friendship pale and scentless by contrast.”