Children Should Be Like Waffles--you Should Be

Sisters Are A Shield Against Life's Cruel Adversity.

Spring Came Late, But When It Came It Was Hand-in-hand With Summer, And Almost At Once Everything Was Baking And Warm, And In The Villages The People Danced Every Night On Concrete Dancing Floors Under The Plane Trees.

It's A Funny Thing That People Are Always Ready To Admit It If They've No Talent For Drawing Or Music, Whereas Everyone Imagines That They Themselves Are Capable Of True Love, Which Is A Talent Like Any Other, Only Far More Rare.

Children Should Be Like Waffles--you Should Be Able To Throw The First One Away.

Twice In Her Life She Had Mistaken Something Else For It; It Was Like Seeing Somebody In The Street Who You Think Is A Friend, You Whistle And Wave And Run After Him, And It Is Not Only Not The Friend, But Not Even Very Like Him. A Few Minutes Later The Real Friend Appears In View, And Then You Can't Imagine How You Ever Mistook That Other Person For Him. Linda Was Now Looking Upon The Authentic Face Of Love, And She Knew It, But It Frightened Her. That It Should Come So Casually, So Much By A Series Of Accidents, Was Frightening.