There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.
It’s an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done.
There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue had never done
It wouldn’t do to go mixing up the present and the past, and cutting bits out of one to fit into the other.
Trying not to believe things when in your heart you are almost sure they are true, is as bad for the temper as anything I know.
Gerald’s look assured her that he and the others would be as near angels as children could be without ceasing to be human.
This shows you that even mistakes are sometimes valuable, so do not be hard on grown-up people if they are wrong sometimes.
For really there is nothing like wings for getting you into trouble. But, on the other hand, if you are in trouble, there is nothing like wings for getting you out of it.
Perhaps there’s given up being magic because people didn’t believe in it any more.
I don’t understand,” says Gerald, alone in his third- class carriage, “how railway trains and magic can go on at the same time.”And yet they do.
How many miles to Babylon?Three score and ten!Can I get there by candle light?Yes, and back again?
How many miles to Babylon?Three score and ten!Can I get there by candle light?Yes, and back again!
It’s not respectable,’ she said. And when people say that, it’s no useanyone’s saying anything.
I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.