Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!
Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.
After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?
Rilla's heart skipped a beat — or, if that be a physiological impossibility, she thought it did.
Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.
Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.