How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from The Sound of Music.
Quote #7
LIESL: You love Father very much. I can tell you do.
MARIA: Very much.
Liesl, being more than a little interested in boys, is very curious to get love advice from her new stepmother. It seems to Shmoop that Maria's matured a lot since she left on her wedding trip. She suddenly seems more serious and poised. Does being a married woman do that to you? Does true love calm you down and make you grow up?
Quote #8
LIESL: Mother, what do you do when you think you love someone? I mean, when you stop loving someone. Or he stops loving you?
MARIA: Well, you cry a little, and then you wait for the sun to come out. It always does.
Liesl's just realized that her romance with Rolfe is going nowhere, since he's dumped her for the Nazi Party. Luckily, Maria's there to offer some much-needed perspective. But again, where did she suddenly get all this wisdom about relationships? A couple of months before, she was studying to become a nun, and we doubt that teenaged romantic drama was on the syllabus.