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.

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

The mug from the washstand was used as Becky's tea cup, and the tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend that it was anything but tea.

I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us

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

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

when the day comes that I kneel by your bedside and see your eyes close, or you kneel by mine, it must be that the one who waits behind shall know the parting is not all.