E. Nesbit Quotes

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• I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don't want to be un-friends.
• 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…
• There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that…
• A red, red rose, all wet with dew, With leaves of green by red shot through.
• 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…
• The ones as big as sheep were easier to avoid, because you could see them coming, but when they flew in at the window and…
• I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow…
• It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
• It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't.
• This is why I shall not tell you in this story about all the days when nothing happened. You will not catch me saying, 'thus…
• People think six is a great many, when it's children. ...they don't mind six pairs of boots, or six pounds of apples, or six oranges,…
• Then suddenly Jack was a changed boy. Something wonderful had happened to him, and it had made him different. It sometimes happened to people that…
• ...Albert-next-door doesn't care for reading, and he has not read nearly so many books as we have, so he is very foolish and ignorant, but…
• It is all very wonderful and mysterious, as all life is apt to be if you go a little below the crust, and are not…
• Time is but a mode of thought
• 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…
• Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book, I might make…
• When you are young so many things are difficult to believe, and yet the dullest people will tell you that they are true--such things, for…
• Ladylike is the beastliest word there is, I think. If a girl isn't a lady, it isn't worth while to be only like one, she'd…
• There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read - unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the…

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