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

Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.

Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your own.

She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.

Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!" (Anne to Gilbert)

But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected. "I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes—when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables—when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had—when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy." -Anne

if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.