Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.

I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.

Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.

A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.

Before this war is over,' [Walter] said - or something said through his lips - 'every man and woman and child in Canada will feel it - you, Mary, will feel it - feel it to your heart's core. You will weep tears of blood over it. The Piper has come - and he will pipe until every corner of the world has heard his awful and irresistible music. It will be years before the dance of death is over - years, Mary. And in those years millions of hearts will break.

...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.