Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true too . . . she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived.

She looked into the staring glass eyes and complacent face, and suddenly a sort of heartbroken rage seized her. She lifted her little savage hand and knocked Emily off the chair, bursting into a passion of sobbing- Sara who never cried.

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

Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.

One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.

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