Gladsong

“All i want is a dress with puffy sleaves”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"...
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“You know, Watson, I don't mind confessing to you that I have always had an idea that I would have made a highly efficient criminal.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities