To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman

However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.

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

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

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. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage.

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

Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.