But maybe everything'll go all right. In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take what ever God sends.

Welcome, Anne. I thought you'd come today. You belong to the afternoon so it brought you. Things that belong together are sure to come together. What a lot of trouble that would save some people if they only knew it. But they don't...and so they waste beautiful energy moving heaven and earth to bring things together that don't belong.

The other day Nan said, 'Nothing can ever be quite the same for any of us again.' It made me feel rebellious. Why shouldn't things be the same again - when everything is over and Jem and Jerry are back? We'll all be happy and jolly again and these days will seem just like a bad dream.

My future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

When you know things you have to go by facts. But when you just dream things there's nothing to hold you down.

There is some good in every person if you can find it. It is a teacher's duty to find and develop it.

it's delightful when your imaginatios come true, isn't it?

everything is foreordained and it was bound to happen anyway. But even so, it's nice to think one was an instrument used by predestination.

What is to be, will be, said Mrs. Rachel gloomily, and what isn't to be happens sometimes.

It is never quite safe to think we have done with life.

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.' That's a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it over to comfort myself whenever I'm disappointed in anything.