"Don't grudge Anne Cordelia her fancies, Diana. I'm always sorry for children who don't spend a few years in fairyland."

"Such a lovely day... made for us," said Diana. "I'm afraid it's a pet day though... there'll be rain tomorrow."

"Such a nice swishy petticoat," sighed Nan. "When I grow up will I have tafty petticoats like that, Mummy?"

"Not even a husband's funeral could damp Clarice down long," said Agatha Drew. "There was nothing solid about her. Alw…"

"Of course it sounds very foolish. Dreams do sound so foolish when they are put into cold brutal words."

"She was such a little girl that one did not expect to see such a look on her small face. It would have been an old lo…"

"I want her to look as if she wasn't a doll really," Sara said. "I want her to look as if she LISTENS when I talk to h…"

"I know you by heart. You are inside my heart."

"She was a child full of imaginings and whimsical thoughts, and one of her fancies was that there would be a great dea…"

"What I believe about dolls," she [Sara Crewe] said, "is that they can do things they will not let us know about. Perh…"