And they both began to laugh over nothing as children will when they are happy together. And they laughed so that in the end they were making as much noise as if they had been two ordinary healthy natural ten-year-old creatures—instead of a hard, little, unloving girl and a sickly boy who believed that he was going to die.

It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.

Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.

Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)

Oh,Sara. It is like a story." "It is a story...everything is a story. You are a story-I am a story. Miss Minchin is a story.

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage.