Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables Complete Series Book 2)

by L.M. Montgomery

having tried to please both sides, succeeded, as is usual and eminently right, in pleasing neither.

Marjory White, aged ten, wanted to be a WIDOW. Questioned why, she gravely said that if you weren't married people called you an old maid, and if you were your husband bossed you; but if you were a widow there'd be no danger of either.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.