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

The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man.

The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off - and they are nearly always doing it.

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

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

There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in—that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies. I scarcely ever do.

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.