Rilla's Quotes

#1. Of unquenchable sparkle and dream as ever. Behind her, in the hammock, Rilla Blythe was curled up, a fat, roly-poly little creature of

L.M. Montgomery

#2. All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.

Cecelia Ahern

#3. I doubted God last Sunday " said Rilla "but I don't doubt Him today. Evil cannot win. Spirit is on our side and it is bound to outlast flesh.

L.M. Montgomery

#4. Chippy, pulling his hand from Rilla's. Rilla

L.M. Montgomery

#5. That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much - in just standing and staring and I was at it again this morning.

James Herriot

#6. Rilla," Raoul said, and at the sound of my childhood nickname, my heart gave a pang. "Don't I have the right to claim what is mine?"
"Of course you do," I said ... "But surely not at any cost.

Cameron Dokey

#7. There are--plenty--without you."
"That isn't the point, Rilla-my-Rilla. I'm going for my own sake--to save my soul alive. It will shrink to something small and mean and lifeless if I don't go. That would be worse than blindness or mutilation or any of the things I've feared.

L.M. Montgomery

#8. Our sacrifice is greater than his," cried Rilla passionately. "Our boys give only themselves. We give them.

L.M. Montgomery

#9. I don't particularly enjoy standing alone and recording my own voice or my own stuff. It's sometimes fun to do for demos and stuff, but I really enjoy the social act of recording records, because writing it is so lonely. And it has to be.

Sondre Lerche

#10. There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I'm talking about whole species becoming extinct, asteroids hitting planets, black holes gobbling up stars.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#11. Because technically actors are just public servants really. They just tell stories because people need to be told stories. That's all it is. And yet we get treated as though we're important.

James McAvoy

#12. Perfection is, however, not to be sought in the future, as we are fully capable of experiencing it here and now, if we abandon ourselves into the present moment and allow the pleasure of Existence take us with it.

Frank M. Wanderer

#13. help me most. I know you'll be as plucky and patient as you have shown yourself to be this past year - I'm not afraid for you. I know that no matter what happens, you'll be Rilla-my-Rilla - no matter what happens." Rilla repressed

L.M. Montgomery

#14. Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.

John Updike

#15. If what you believe doesn't depend om what you see, you've been blinded as effectively as by poking out your eyeballs.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#16. You can't just plain die. You got to do it by the book.

Richard McKenna

#17. Rilla's heart skipped a beat - or, if that be a pysiological impossibility, she thought it did.

L.M. Montgomery

#18. Rilla was not fond of Mary Vance. She had never forgotten the humiliating day when Mary had chased her through the village with a dried codfish.

L.M. Montgomery

#19. I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)

L.M. Montgomery

#20. Rilla meant to keep Walter's letter as a a sacred treasure.

L.M. Montgomery

#21. Quite simply, my diet has and will always be everything in moderation. People look at Olympic athletes and think they must cut out all those things everyone else indulges in, and speaking for myself, I never did.

Summer Sanders

#22. We didn't get anything done! She looked around vaguely, then wandered along the corridor to the

Rilla Askew

#23. Is it Rilla-my-Rilla?

L.M. Montgomery

#24. I'm not sure it matters how old you are. If something affects you, it affects you. No one has the right to say how long or in what way other people are allowed to feel things. Our emotions are our own.

Riley Hart

#25. Why not throw in an amnesia victim, a crazy parrot, and a Ouija board to keep it interesting?

Christina A. Burke

#26. Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.

L.M. Montgomery

#27. Is there laughter in your face yet, Rilla? I hope so. The world will need laughter and courage more than ever in the years that will come next. I don't want to preach - this isn't any time for it.

L.M. Montgomery