“Theyd have people out looking for her, and nothing makes grown-ups quite so mad as finding a child safe when theyd been scared silly that they might find that child dead.”

“I think maybe miracles are something everybody has to find out about for themselves. Telling them about it doesnt make them believe. It just makes them think youre crazy as a bessie bug.”

“Willadee asked him if he thought maybe it should say HAPPY EVER AFTER, but Samuel said no, he thought happiness was like any other miracle. The more you talked about it, the less people believed it...”

“They’d have people out looking for her, and nothing makes grown-ups quite so mad as finding a child safe when they’d been scared silly that they might find that child dead.”

“Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.”

“Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.Francois de La Rochefoucauld”

“Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.”