One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.

I shall live forever and ever and ever ' he cried grandly. 'I shall find out thousands and thousands of things. I shall find out about people and creatures and everything that grows - like Dickon - and I shall never stop making Magic. I'm well I'm well

we do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if 'tis not granted to us, and then we kneel and kneel and believe, because we must have someone to ask help from.

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

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

Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?" he said, stroking her hair. "No," she answered. "I know you by heart. You are inside my heart.

What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else.