Best Of L.M. Montgomery's "The Tangled Web"
Here is a selection of memorable quotes from The Tangled Web by L.M. Montgomery A caution: if these quotes inspire you to read The Tangled Web, please be warned that the book ends (literally the last sentence) with racial slurs. More about that here . Also, I read this on a strange copy on my e-reader and I don't have page numbers for this one. “Decency’s a dull dog,” retorted Aunt Becky. “I parted company with it long ago." She longed for freedom, as all women do, but had sense enough to understand that real freedom is impossible in this kind of a world, the lucky people being those who can choose their masters, so she never made the mistake of kicking uselessly over the traces. Sometimes she was mean, treacherous and greedy. Sometimes she was generous, faithful and unselfish. In short, she was an average person who had lived as long as anybody should live.’
