The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

‎"She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.

They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't.

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.

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

Have you noticed that many jewels make women either incredibly fat or incredibly thin?

She's awfully fond of Wendy,' he said to himself. He was angry with her now for not seeing why she could not have Wendy. The reason was so simple: 'I'm fond of her too. We can't both have her, lady.