Jennifer Ray

“But what I really long to know you do not tell either: what you feel, although I've given you hints by the score of my regard. You like me. You wouldn't waste time or paper on a being you didn't like. But I think I've loved you since we met at your mother's funeral. I want to be with you forever and beyond, but you write that you are too young to marry or too old or too short or too hungry---until I crumple your letters up in despair, only to smooth them out again for a twelfth reading, hunting for hidden meanings.”
― Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See