I don't know that it will sound very well, but it has the doubtful virtue of being true.

The first reason is that it interests me; perhaps I should even say--amuses me.

I always did like new things--queer things--surprises--things different.

And the other reason is that I've taken a sure enough liking to you." She had drawn back at the first reason; but the bluntness of the first must have conveyed a sense of honesty in the second, for like the child who has been told something nice, a smile was faintly suggested beneath the tears.
"Would you like to hear my favorite quotation from Scripture ?" Kate wanted to know.
At thought of Katie's having a favorite quotation the smile grew a little more defined.
"My favorite quotation is this: 'Take no thought for the morrow.' Perhaps it ends in a way that spoils it; I would never read the rest of it, fearing it would ruin itself, but taking just so much and no more--and it certainly is your privilege to do that if you wish--if all of a thing is good for you, part of it must be somewhat good--it does make the most comfortable philosophy of life I know of.

It's a great solace to me.