“ Daddy dear, I'm only fourAnd I'd rather not be more.Four's the nicest age to be,Two and two and one and three.What I love is two and two,Mother, Peter, Phil, and you.What you love is one and three,Mot… E. Nesbit
“ They didn't know being dead is only being asleep, and you're bound to wake up somewhere or other, either where you go to sleep or some better place. E. Nesbit
“ In such delightful conversation the time went by all too quickly. The Station Master came out once or twice from that sacred inner temple behind the place where the hole is that they sell you tickets… E. Nesbit
“ I say, Phyllis suggested, let's all wave to the Green Dragon as it goes by. If it's a magic dragon, it'll understand and take our loves to Father. And if it isn't, three waves aren't much. We shall ne… E. Nesbit
“ How many miles to Babylon?Three score and ten!Can I get there by candle light?Yes, and back again! E. Nesbit
“ Aunt Emily says grown-ups never really like playing. They do it to please us.They little know, Gerald answered, how often we do it to please them. E. Nesbit
“ Well, you're to stay here and be my little boy till we find out where father is. We shall let the police know. They're sure to find him. The pleece! Dickie cried in horror. Why, father, 'e ain't done… E. Nesbit
“ Robert rushed to the gravel-pit, found the Psammead, and presently wished for— But that, too, is another story. E. Nesbit
“ Our darling Roberta,No sorrow shall hurt herIf we can prevent itHer whole life long.Her birthday's our fete day,We'll make it our great day,And give her our presentsAnd sing her our song.May pleasures… E. Nesbit
“ One day Peter was going down to the village to get buns to celebrate the sensibleness of the Editor of the Children's Globe, when he met the Station Master. Peter felt very uncomfortable, for he had n… E. Nesbit
“ London is like prison for children, especially if their relations are not rich.Of course there are the shops and the theatres, and Maskelyne and Cook's, and things, but if your people are rather poor… E. Nesbit
“ It has been said that all roads lead to Rome; this may be true, but at any rate, in early youth I am quite sure that many roads lead to BED, and stop there–or YOU do. E. Nesbit
“ I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don't want to be un-friends. E. Nesbit
“ Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing the book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just right—in the way that… E. Nesbit
“ Boys and girls are only little men and women. And WE are much harder and hardier than they are-- (Peter liked the we. Perhaps the Doctor had known he would.)--and much stronger, and things that hurt T… E. Nesbit
“ And that, my dear children, is the moral of this chapter. I did not mean it to have a moral, but morals are nasty forward beings, and will keep putting in their oars where they are not wanted. And sin… E. Nesbit
