I am sure we should not shut our hearts against the healing influences that nature offers us. But I understand your feeling. I think we all experience the same thing. We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us.

A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!

I've come home in love with loneliness

Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven.

Anne Shirley. Anne with an "e.

The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.