death is always sudden however long one waits.

People never like me and I never like people

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.

As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off - and they are nearly always doing it.

If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor