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.

There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in—that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies. I scarcely ever do.

But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.

Their eyes met with a singular directness of gaze. Between them a spark passed which was not afterwards to be extinguished, though neither of them knew the moment of its kindling.

She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of and what you do.

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

Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.