Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.

It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born

Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea - a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another. Mrs. Tiggy-winkle's hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very brown, and very very wrinkly with the soap-suds; and all through her gown and her cap, there were HAIRPINS sticking wrong end out; so that Lucie didn't like to sit too near her.

We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.

This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.

I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...

I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.