And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started.

No book ever ends, when it's full of your friends.

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true. -Grandpa Joe

I was observing her closely as I talked, and after a while I began to get the impression that she was not, in fact, quite so merry and smiling a girl as I had been led to believe at first. She seemed to be coiled in herself, as though with a secret she was jealously guarding. The deep-blue eyes moved too quickly about the room, never settling or resting on one thing for more than a moment; and over all her face, though so faint that they might not even have been there, those small downward lines of sorrow.

It was slowly beginning to dawn upon Henry that nothing is any fun if you can get as much of it as you want. Especially money.