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.

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.

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

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.

You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up.

It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.

Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe.