There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life. – Mary Wortley
[T]he beautiful world of blossom and love and friendship had lost none of its power to please her fancy and thrill her heart… life still called to her with many insistent voices. – L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables [the comfort of knowing the world goes on
