Pauline kept a scrapbook into which she pasted important articles that she had cut out of the newspapers. These were about the courageous deeds that had been done by people even if they only had one leg or couldn't see or had been dropped on their heads when they were babies. 'It's to make me brave,' she'd explained to Annika.

Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.

The news should have terrified her, but it was difficult to be frightened of anything when she was sitting so close to Rom. 'I thought we had convinced him that I was leading a blameless life?' 'We had, till you burst out of that damnable cake.

To show too much joy in a place such as this would be unseemly but, as he padded toward her, his tail was extended in a manner which would make wagging possible should all go as expected.

One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda

It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them.

I want to live like music sounds."- Ruth