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.

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

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

Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.

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