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.

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...

So he caught her in his arms and kissed her, and they were very happy, and told each other what a beautiful world it was, and how wonderful it was that they should have found...

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

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...

I’m the top of my class, auntie, thank you, and I am very good. And now let us have a little talk about you, aunt, dear. How much money have you got, and have you...

And where are you going?””I dunno,” said the Spangled Boy. “I’m running from, not to.”Book: Wet Magic, Chapter 5.

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.

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.

Grown-up people find it difficult to believe really wonderful things, unless they have what they call proof. But children will believe almost anything, and grown-ups know this. That is why they tell you that the...

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 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...

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.

If you say that the China Cat might have lost its ear-tips in battle you are the kind of person who always makes difficulties, and you may be quite sure that the kind of splendid...