The bend in the road

"...but if the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joys of sincere work and and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright.... And there was always the bend in the road!"

- The wisdom of Anne Shirley in L.M. Montgomery's "Anne of Green Gables"

Meeting trouble halfway

"But I don't see the use of meeting trouble halfway, do you, Marilla? I think it would be better just to enjoy Mr Allan while we have him."

-Anne Shirley, on the prospect of losing a good minister, in L.M. Montgomery's children's classic "Anne of Green Gables"