We'll just have to find more flowers in the spring. That's when they bloom, tra la.

When there are boys you have to worry about how you look, and whether they like you, and why they like another girl better, and whether they're going to ask you to something or other. It's a strain.

You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say.

The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.

The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in your thoughts, and in the way you act from day to day, in the way you treat other people. It's honesty, and unselfishness, and kindness. Especially kindness.

We'll just have to find more flowers in the spring. That's when they bloom, tra la.

She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her round cheeks, almost to the hair ribbons tied in perky bows over her ears.