After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.

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

If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!

You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

The gates of heaven are so easily found when we are little, and they are always standing open to let children wander in.

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

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