"Rilla's world had tumbled to pieces the very day after the party" (The Sound of a Going, p. 50).

"Rilla felt as if she were in some fantastic nightmare. Were these the people who, three weeks ago, were talking of crops and prices and local gossip" (Susan, Rilla, and Dog Monday, p. 67).

"She's upstairs, Mrs. Dr. dear, putting her baby to bed" (A War-baby, p. 79).

"Suppose, she thought, I was a tiny, helpless creature only five months old, with my father somewhere in France and my poor little mother, who had been so worried about me, in the graveyard" (Dark and Bright, p. 109).

"A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes - only sometimes" (In the Days of Langemark, p. 120).

"There is only one thing of importance just now - and that is that the Allies win the war" (A Slice of Humble Pie, p. 130).

"I wonder...