If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire.

The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.

Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?

When ladies used to come to me in dreams, I said, 'Pretty mother, pretty mother.' But when at last she really came, I shot her.

Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams

She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter did not know what she meant, and he held out his hand expectantly.

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.