The Railway Children
by E. Nesbit
(London, Folio, 1999)
Sometimes, in moments of great need, we can do wonderful things - things that in ordinary life we could hardly even dream of doing.
Page 64.
Even mothers who love you better than anyone else ever will, don’t always understand.
Page 97.
I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don’t want to be un-friends.
Page 109.
It’s not so much what you does as what you means.
Page 122.
Praise helps people very much, sometimes.
Page 133.
Don’t you think it’s rather nice to think that we’re in a book that God’s writing?
Page 171.
I suppose most grown-ups have very bad memories, and have forgotten how they felt when they were little.
Page 178.