“but the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after – oh, that’s love by a different name. she is the babe you hold in your arms for an hour after she’s gone to sleep. if you put her […]

“all in all, it was a never to be forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to […]

“why do we have to grow up? i know more adults who have the children’s approach to life. they’re people who don’t give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at disneyland every time you go there. they are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of […]

“look at that sea, girls–all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. we couldn’t enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.” – l.m. montgomery, anne of green gablesso, unless you are my mother, my grandmother, or one of my fabulous aunts, you could probably care […]

“if you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire. But […]