Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?

Being frightened of things is worse than the things themselves.

War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.

We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?

Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.

Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.

But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them.