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

we do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if 'tis not granted to us, and then we kneel and kneel and believe, because we must have someone to ask help from.

And they both began to laugh over nothing as children will when they are happy together. And they laughed so that in the end they were making as much noise as if they had been two ordinary healthy natural ten-year-old creatures—instead of a hard, little, unloving girl and a sickly boy who believed that he was going to die.

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

To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman

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

Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart.