“She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.”

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”

“Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.”

“She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.”

“If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give thing...”