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

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

Germ of endearment — E. Nesbit

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

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

The tragedy wasn't that Stanford White died, but that I lived. — Evelyn 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

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

Time is but a mode of thought — E. Nesbit

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

Girls are just as clever as boys, and don't you forget it! — E. Nesbit

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. — E. Nesbit

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

But what's the use of belonging anywhere if you're invisible? — E. Nesbit

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

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. — E. Nesbit

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

Time and space are only forms of thought. — E. Nesbit

Nobody can live in the past or the future without being something of a nut. — Evelyn Nesbit

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

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

Authors as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, E. Nesbit, and J. R. R. Tolkien have shaped modern paganism as greatly as any theological underpinnings. — Liz Williams

Or, for one of our mothers, the secret to a good marriage, she said, was sex. — TaraShea Nesbit

Out, out, into the night,
The belfry bells are ours by right! — E. Nesbit

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

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

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. — E. Nesbit

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

Bean felt a rush of sweet nostalgia for the woman who had introduced us to E. Nesbit and Edward Eager and Laura Ingalls Wilder ... — Eleanor Brown

Everyone felt as if it had been trying not to cry all its life, — E. Nesbit

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

It was to keep it whole. — E. Nesbit

Perhaps there's given up being magic because people didn't believe in it any more. — E. Nesbit

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. — E. Nesbit

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. — E. Nesbit

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 — E. Nesbit

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

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

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. — 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

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

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

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

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

We felt that we were a portrait on the wall, more invisible the longer it had been in its location — TaraShea Nesbit

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. — E. Nesbit

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

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

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. — E. Nesbit

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 — E. Nesbit

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing. — E. Nesbit

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

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