It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that 'this, too, will pass away.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryWhen people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quiteโalways.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryWhenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryI wonder if it will beโcan beโany more beautiful than this,โ murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptured eyes of those to whom โhomeโ must always be the loveliest spot in the world, no matter what fairer lands may lie under alien stars.
Lucy Maud Montgomery