Every time you say you don't believe in fairies, a fairy dies.
The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.
Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.
I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don’t want to be a man.
The man who is in real danger is the man who thinks he is perfectly safe.
The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.