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.

Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.

Not a frog, I hope?” he asked…She shook her head. “No. And if it was I wouldn’t kiss it, I promise you. I might kiss a prince if I could be sure he’d turn into a frog, but not the other way around.

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.

Just because we've never done it doesn't mean we can't do it.

That's silly, Anna," said the Honorable Olive. "Being afraid is silly, you know it is.

What are you afraid of then? Not Being able to see, I think not seeing because your obsessed by something that blots out the world.