There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.
Lucy Maud Montgomeryit would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine
Lucy Maud MontgomeryNobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryWe are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryAll that Ruby said was so horribly true, she was leaving everything she cared for. She had laid up her treasures on earth only. She had lived solely for the little things of life, the things that pass, forgetting the great things that go onward into eternity bridging the gulf between the two lives and making of death a mere passing of one dwelling to the other. From twilight to unclouded day. ...it was no wonder her soul clung in blind helplessness to the only things she knew and loved.
Lucy Maud Montgomery