Lucy Maud Montgomery Want Quotations

Make them do as you want them to," she said. "I can’t," mourned Anne. "Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again.

If any person wants to see clearly just how much she has changed - whether for better or worse - let her revisit after some lapse of time any place where she has ones lived. She will meet her former self at every turn, with every familiar face, in every old recollection ... She will see how much she has gained in some respects, how much she has lost - irretrievably lost - in others.

I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.

The greatest happiness [...] is to sneeze when you want to.

[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.

if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.

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.

Anne laughed. "I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you.

All i want is a dress with puffy sleaves