Verena

“Ready, Lydia?" Jack asked, "Can you run?"
Could she? A bobolink warbled the answer.
"Yes," said Lydia, all hope and exhilaration. "Yes, I can."
And away they went. the three together, prancing, leaping, gamboling into the future.”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks at Last

“There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“This is what made a book great, she thought, that you could read it over and over and never get tired of it.”
― Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy

“The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.”
― C.S. Lewis