Robert explained how much simpler it was to pay money for things than to exchange them as the people were doing in the market. Later on the soldier gave the coins to his captain, who, later still, sho...
This shows you that even mistakes are sometimes valuable, so do not be hard on grown-up people if they are wrong sometimes.
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.
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.
Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just right--in the way that'...
The nine rubies were used afterwards in agriculture. You had only to throw them out into a field if you wanted it plowed. Then the whole surface of the land turned itself over in its anxiety to get ri...
There was a pleasant party of barge people round the fire. You might not have thought it pleasant, but they did; for they were all friends or acquaintances, and they liked the same sort of things, and...
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.
What a night it was! The jagged masses of heavy dark cloud were rolling at intervals from horizon to horizon, and thin white wreaths covered the stars. Through all the rush of the cloud river the moon...
It wouldn't do to go mixing up the present and the past, and cutting bits out of one to fit into the other.
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.
I'll tell you something, said Francis,urgent with shoe lace, if we keep on saying things weren't when we know perfectly well they were, we shall soon dish up any sort of chance of magic we may ever ha...
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.
Perhaps there's given up being magic because people didn't believe in it any more.
The ones I got are all right,’ Jane said; ‘I know they are, because the man at the shop said they were worth thribble the money–’ ‘I’m sure thribble isn’t grammar,’ Anthea said. ‘Of course it isn’t,’...
The Baby said, 'Wanty go walky'; and the fly stopped with a last rattle and jolt.
THE TOP PART OF PRIDMORE TURNED INTO PAINTED IRON AND GLASS. Oh, my poor child, said the King, your maid has turned into an Automatic Machine.
She had been to her Great-Aunt Willoughby’s before, and she knew exactly what to expect. She would be asked about her lessons, and how many marks she had, and whether she had been a good girl. I can’t...
There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books.