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

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

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.

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.

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.

Magic is in her just as it is in Dickon," said Colin. "It makes her think of ways to do things - nice things.

One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever.