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

Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.

Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.

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

Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

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

At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite Manor. She had felt as if she had understood a robin and that he had understood her; she had run in the wind until her blood had grown warm; she had been healthily hungry for the first time in her life; and she had found out what it was to be sorry for someone.