And that is the last lesson of childhood: You spend all your years fighting against the injustice of big folk and their big rules until you are ready to rule yourself.

No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings.

The Heart of Fairyland is a story, " she said, and she felt so warm and light and full of rightness of it that she thought she might faint.

Every cat knows how to keep his owner feeding them: You may scratch and bite ninety-nine times, but the hundredth time, you must leap into a lap and press your nose to their nose. Rules are for dogs.

Flowers are always more serious than they appear.

This is the time to remember that I’m the protagonist in my own story, facing every challenge with grace and wit.

Sing through your grief. Don't let your thoughts weigh you down.

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.

The goal is not writing. The goal is being a human being writing.

I don't smoke, I don't drink, two out of three ain't bad.

And men my prophet wail deride!

There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it.

If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally.

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.