Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

I've got favorite sweatshirts and my Buffalo Bills sweatshirts that I've had for years. I will never abandon them. They are my pride and joy.

Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned.

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?

I'm a selective pack rat. There's some things I have no problem getting rid of and others I hold onto dearly.

The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.

I do hang on to things. I was so happy my father saved his army jacket. I grew up wearing that all through high school.

I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.

In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.

I think the relationship [in Aquarius] with her nephew shows that she's not nostalgic. She just wants to preserve what is important to her - her records, her books, even some furniture. She doesn't want to leave that house because it is her home. That is where her kids were born. After moving so much in my life, I was touched by Clara's need to stay in that apartment. I love her life, and that may be why I connected to her so strongly. We are the most alike when we are fighting for our rights.

Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.

Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then find it impossible to release my fingers and let the picture drop and disappear.

There's a lot in my closet. I've been collecting things since I was five. I'm definitely a pack rat. I'm not a hoarder, but I'm definitely a pack rat. I will keep anything if I have a memory in it or a good moment.

I'm not at the hoarder stage, but there are two or three storage units here and there. I have things that a lot of people put a lot of heart and soul into, a lot of mental energy. I'm good at keeping those things. When it comes to pop culture, as you move through this fast lane, you wonder where it all goes and how you can hold onto it.

I love my books, and with all their dog-ears and under-linings they are irreplaceable, but I sometimes wish they'd just vanish.

I'm not a hoarder, I'm a collector: if you have something you like, every time you see it, you have a little happy hit.

I have two paintings that used to belong to my grandmother, who lived in Chicago. When I was young, I used to sleep over at her house. They came to me when she passed away. I remember looking at them when I was a girl, and now, every time I see them, I feel good.

My memories mean a lot to me, and I hold them close to my heart.

My mother kept every single thing that she ever got in her life.

My Beijing jersey means more to me than any of them.

The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remain hovering over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves. I am one of those who remembers those places regardless of distance or time.

The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.

There's always something about home that's special.

I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.

My wife calls me the Imelda Marcos of books. As soon as a book enters our home it is guaranteed a permanent place in our lives. Because I have never been able to part with even one, they have gradually accumulated like sediment.

The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became.