Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.

She looked into the staring glass eyes and complacent face, and suddenly a sort of heartbroken rage seized her. She lifted her little savage hand and knocked Emily off the chair, bursting into a passion of sobbing- Sara who never cried.

Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.

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

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.

Yes," answered Sara, nodding. "Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.

What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else.