“I am immeasurably, unbearably happy. I am three years old. I am sixty. I am six. I am there.”
“I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal. ”
“I am Eloise. I am six. I live at the Plaza hotel.”
“I find no importance in showing others that I am happy; it's not important to me that they know or think that I am happy but what is important to me is that I am happy. I am interested in being happy, not in making others think or know that I am.”
“There I am, in the Grade Six class picture, smiling broadly. Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hardshelled, firmly closed.”
“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man.”