She did not know that this was the best thing she could have done, and she did not know that, when she began to walk quickly or even run along the paths and down the avenue, she was stirring her slow blood and making herself stronger by fighting with the wind which swept down from the moor.

Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.

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

If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.

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

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

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