A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.

David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.

One girl is worth more use than 20 boys.

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

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.

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.