…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.

What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.

When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.

I feel as though someone's handed me the moon... and I don't exactly know what to do with it.

Before this war is over,' [Walter] said - or something said through his lips - 'every man and woman and child in Canada will feel it - you, Mary, will feel it - feel it to your heart's core. You will weep tears of blood over it. The Piper has come - and he will pipe until every corner of the world has heard his awful and irresistible music. It will be years before the dance of death is over - years, Mary. And in those years millions of hearts will break.

Since ever the world was spinning And till the world shall end You've your man in the beginning Or you have him in the end, But to have him from start to finish And neither nor borrow nor lend Is what all of the girls are wanting And none of the gods can send

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful.