I love them, they are so nice and selfish. Dogs are TOO good and unselfish. They make me feel uncomfortable. But cats are gloriously human.

Anyhow, there'll be plenty of jam in heaven, that's one comfort, he said complacently. Perhaps there will...if we want it, she said, But what makes you think so? Why, it's in the catechism, said Davy. Oh, no, there is nothing like that in the catechism, Davy. But I tell you there is, persisted Davy. It was in that question Marilla taught me last Sunday. Why should we love God? It says, Because he makes preserves, and redeems us. Preserves is just a holy way of saying jam.

There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen.

Dogs want only love but cats demand worship.

Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.

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.