The very fact that she never made an impudent answer seemed to Miss Minchin a kind of impudence in itself.
The robin was tremendously busy. He was very much pleased to see gardening begun on his own estate. He had often wondered at Ben Weatherstaff. Where gardening is done all sorts of delightful things to...
That is the Magic. Being alive is the Magic—being strong is the Magic. The Magic is in me—the Magic is in me.
That afternoon the whole world seemed to devote itself to being perfect and radiantly beautiful and kind to one boy.
Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.
She was all in pink, and a wreath of little pink wild roses lay close about her head, making her, with her tall young slimness, look like a Botticelli nymph.
She was a sweet, pretty thing and he'd have walked the world over to get her a blade o' grass she wanted.
She stopped and listened to him and somehow his cheerful, friendly little whistle gave her a pleased feeling--even a disagreeable little girl may be lonely, and the big closed house and big bare moor...
Sara, she said, do you think you can bear living here?Sara looked round also.If I pretend it’s quite different, I can, she answered; or if I pretend it is a place in a story.She spoke slowly. Her imag...
Sara saw that privately she could not help hoping very much that they would all be black, and would wear turbans,
One of the strange things about living in the world is that is only now and then that one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the t...
Once when I was givin' th' children a bit of a preach after they'd been fightin' I ses to 'em all, When I was at school my jography told as th' world was shaped like a orange an' I found out before I...
Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking l...
Oh! to think that he should actually let her come as near to him as that! He knew nothing in the world would make her put out her hand toward him or startle him in the least tiniest way. He knew it be...
Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.
Magic is in her just as it is in Dickon, said Colin. It makes her think of ways to do things - nice things.
Las dos peores cosas que le pueden suceder a un niño es no salirse nunca con al suya, o salirse siempre con ella.Susan Sowerby
Khi người ta sỉ nhục mình thì cách tốt nhất là mình chẳng nói một lời nào - cứ nhìn họ và suy nghĩ. Khi mình không nổi giận, người ta biết là mình mạnh mẽ hơn họ bởi vì mình đủ mạnh mẽ để kiềm chế cơn...
It's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always.
It was a vague belief that she herself was not quite real—or that she did not belong to the life she had been born into.