46 Quotes by E. Nesbit

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 blue had never done.

Time and space are only forms of thought.

There is no bond like having read and liked the same books.

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 him best of all.

A red, red rose, all wet with dew, With leaves of green by red shot through.

Life will give you what you ask of here if only you ask long enough and plainly enough.

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 seems to us to be real.

Also she had the power of silent sympathy. That sounds rather dull, I know, but it’s not so dull as it sounds. It just means that a person is able to know that you are unhappy, and to love you extra on that account, without bothering you by telling you all the time how sorry she is for you.

I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don’t want to be un-friends.