How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.

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.

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

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

As long as one has a garden, one has a future. As long as one has a future, one is alive.

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

As she came closer to him she noticed that there was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about him, almost as if he were made of them. She liked it very much and when she looked into his funny face with the red cheeks and round blue eyes she forgot that she had felt shy.