If I go on talking and talking...and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better.

Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.

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

That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.

If I go on talking and talking...and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better.

People never like me and I never like people," she thought. "And I never can talk as the Crawford children could. They were always talking and laughing and making noises.

Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable, determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.