Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.

One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever.

...and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay parties.

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

a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.

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

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