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

Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)

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

If I go on talking and talking...and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better.

when the day comes that I kneel by your bedside and see your eyes close, or you kneel by mine, it must be that the one who waits behind shall know the parting is not all.

Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.

I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses.