I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don’t want to be a man.

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

She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.

Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.

Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?" Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.

We have a right to know the truth; no right to ask anything else from God, but the right to know that.