When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryAnyhow, there'll be plenty of jam in heaven, that's one comfort, he said complacently. Perhaps there will...if we want it, she said, But what makes you think so? Why, it's in the catechism, said Davy. Oh, no, there is nothing like that in the catechism, Davy. But I tell you there is, persisted Davy. It was in that question Marilla taught me last Sunday. Why should we love God? It says, Because he makes preserves, and redeems us. Preserves is just a holy way of saying jam.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryShe will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.
Lucy Maud MontgomeryPerhaps, after all, romance did not come into oneโs life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to oneโs side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.
Lucy Maud Montgomery