It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?
Lucy Maud MontgomeryRuby Gillis thinks of nothing but young men, and the older she gets the worse she is. Young men are all very well in their place, but it doesn't do to drag them into everything, does it?
Lucy Maud MontgomeryAn old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.
Lucy Maud Montgomery