The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff.

The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.

Weeping is terrible for the complexion" said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, "but it is very good for the soul.

I never wanted Mary Poppins to be my nanny. I wanted to be her when I grew up.

Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.

It's a wonder that any mother ever called a daughter Dinah again. But some did. Maybe you guessed that there was more to me than the voiceless cipher in the text. Maybe you heard it in the music of my name: the first vowel high and clear, as when a mother calls to her child at dusk; the second sound soft, for whispering secrets on pillows. Dee-nah.

One of his tears fell in my mouth, where it became a blue sapphire, source of strength, source of strength and eternal hope.