Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.

... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been

John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!

...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.

I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.

They were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven.

Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.