It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.

They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?

That's one splendid thing about such affairs — it's so lovely to look back to them.

trees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. No matter how much you like them at the start you are sure to like them much better further on, and best of all when you have known them for years and enjoyed intercourse with them in all seasons.

Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to find - which He ain't never.

Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!

Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces