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Perhaps she did more than anyone else, for she slapped the King and put him to bed without his tea,

I'd like to marry a lady who had trances, and only woke up once or twice a year

Germ of endearment

He said that his eyes were red because he had a cold.

It wouldn't do to go mixing up the present and the past, and cutting bits out of one to fit into the other.

I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don't want to be un-friends.

This shows you that even mistakes are sometimes valuable, so do not be hard on grown-up people if they are wrong sometimes.

Time is but a mode of thought

It's not respectable,' she said.
And when people say that, it's no use
anyone's saying anything.

Girls are just as clever as boys, and don't you forget it!

The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city - I love him best of all.

If you're lucky enough to be different, don't you ever changed - Taylor Swift

But what's the use of belonging anywhere if you're invisible?

The Baby said, 'Wanty go walky'; and the fly stopped with a last rattle and jolt.

There are a thousand spears in my back,' said a little sharp voice, 'and they are all devoted to the Princess and to her alone.

I've not got much money, but I've got heaps of ideas.

Everyone felt as if it had been trying not to cry all its life,

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.

Besides, it is wrong to be angry with people for not being so clever as you are yourself. It is not always their faults.

Robert rushed to the gravel-pit, found the Psammead, and presently wished for - But that, too, is another story.

Out, out, into the night,
The belfry bells are ours by right!

(The Gentle Reader may perhaps have suffered from this difficulty.)

Yes, I know," Lionel interrupted. "Well, I shall read them all. I love to read. I am so glad I learned to read.

Time is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction. There is no such thing as time.

A red, red rose, all wet with dew, With leaves of green by red shot through.

But it's raining cats and dogs,' said Jane.

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

Gerald's look assured her that he and the others would be as near angels as children could be without ceasing to be human.

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.

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.

Don't ask me no questions and I won't tell you no lies," the red-headed Ruth replied. "You'll know soon enough." Late

It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't.

I think magic went out when people began to have steam-engines, and newspapers, and telephones and wireless telegraphing.

When the next Saturday came around everyone was a little nervous, but the Red Dragon was pretty quiet that day and only ate an Orphanage.

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.

Life will give you what you ask of here if only you ask long enough and plainly enough.

There is no bond like having read and liked the same books.

It was to keep it whole.

For London is like prison for children, especially if their relations are not rich.

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.

The rule of the giant's wife, a most worthy woman, whose only fault was that she was to ready to trust boys.

Everything has an end, and you get to it if you only keep all on.

Being editors is not the best way to wealth. We all feel this now, and highwaymen are not respected any more like they used to be.

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 is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

Time and space are only forms of thought.