I pretend I am a princess,so that I can try and behave like one.

She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her and was not the least afraid she would not like him, though he was only a common moor boy, in patched clothes and with a funny face and a rough, rusty-red head.

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

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

Never thee stop believin' in th' Big Good Thing an' knowin' th' world's full of it - and call it what tha' likes. Tha' wert singin' to it when I come into t' garden.

The air was full of spices... A Little Princess

Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things.