Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.

We belong to the race that knows Joseph

People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

Gilbert took from his desk a little pink candy heart with a gold motto on it, “You are sweet,” and slipped it under the curve of Anne’s arm. Whereupon Anne arose, took the pink heart gingerly between the tips of her fingers, dropped it on the floor, ground it to powder beneath her heel, and resumed her position without deigning to bestow a glance on Gilbert.

Perhaps. . .love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.

All i want is a dress with puffy sleaves

She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.