Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.

Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

If I go on talking and talking...and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better.

...and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay parties.

Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.

So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage.

Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"... "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine.