I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us

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

If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor

Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places.

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.

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