Újraolvastam,

igaz angolul Eleanor H. Porter-től: Pollyanna és Pollyanna grows up című könyveket. Itt van néhány idézet belőlük (angolul):

• "And most generally there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it."

• ... she had been too busy wishing things were different to find much time to enjoy things as they were.

• It takes a woman's hand and heart, or a child's presence, to make a home.

• Things aren't half as bad as they seem, dear, lots of times, you know.

• ... the harder it was to find the glad part, the more fun it was, only when it was too AWFUL hard, like she had found it sometimes.

• I've just been thinking how glad I am we don't have to live but just one day at a time!

• "But you only have to live one minute at a time, Ruth, and any one can endure anything for one minute at a time!"

• Nice things are nicer when you've been worrying for fear they won't be nice, aren't they?

• You never know how much you use things, till you don't have 'em.

• "Yes; the glad game. Didn't I tell you? Finding something in everything to be glad about."

• 'Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem; There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground But holds some joy, of silence or of sound.'

• "... you know the sun never seems quite so perfectly lovely as it does after a lot of rain like this,"