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

Having adventures comes natural to some people", said Anne serenely. "You just have a gift for them or you haven't.

I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse

Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?

Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.