The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

During the fifteen minutes that followed, the proud and sensitive girl suffered a shame and pain which she never forgot. To others it might seem a ludicrous or trivial affair, but to her it was a hard experience, for during the twelve years of her life she had been governed by love alone

I think we are all hopelessly flawed.

But please hug and kiss me, everyone, and don't mind my dress, I want a great many crumples of this sort put into it today.

Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret.

…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.