The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.

One's religion is whatever he is most interested in.

Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

..children know such a lot now, they soon don't believe in fairies, and every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

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

Make your feet your friend.