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.

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

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

There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em.

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

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.

Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.