That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

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

It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.

I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry." - Martin Harris

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.

Oh, we're very careful, Marilla. And it's so interesting. Two flashes means, "Are you there?" Three means "yes" and four "no." Five means, "Come over as soon as possible, because I have something important to reveal." Diana has just signalled five flashes, and I'm really suffering to know what it is.