Life will give you what you ask of here if only you ask long enough and plainly enough.

A red, red rose, all wet with dew, With leaves of green by red shot through.

Ladylike is the beastliest word there is, I think. If a girl isn't a lady, it isn't worth while to be only like one, she'd better let it alone and be a free and happy bounder.

Then suddenly Jack was a changed boy. Something wonderful had happened to him, and it had made him different. It sometimes happened to people that they see or hear something quite wonderful and then they are never altogether the same again.

There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue had never done

Time and space are only forms of thought.

I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don't want to be un-friends.