If Sara had been a boy and lived a few centuries ago, her father used to say, 'she would have gone about the country with her sword drawn, rescuing and defending everyone in distress. She always wants to fight when she sees people in trouble.

Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.

However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.

So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage.

People never like me and I never like people," she thought. "And I never can talk as the Crawford children could. They were always talking and laughing and making noises.

Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.

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