“This young gentleman was like something from out of a leather-bound book!”

“And always John, who is my own Gilbert Blythe, my real life Mr. Darcy, and the love of my life.”

“Curiosity often plagued my soul more than I could bear.”

“For everyone knows that a girl cannot live on chicken cordon blue alone.”

“I sighed; as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young.”

“I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book”

“It took me a moment. I blinked, and suddenly it swam into focus and I had to frown very hard to keep myself from giggling out loud like the schoolgirl Deb had accused me of being. Because he had arranged the arms and legs in letters, and the letters spelled out a single small word: BOO. The three torsos were carefully arranged below the BOO in a quarter-circle, making a cute little Halloween smile. What a scamp.”