“We are all happy if we but knew it.”
“I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.”
“Mrs Forrester ... sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that she knew that we knew, she had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes.”
“We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.”
“...,we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy,”
“These were such friendly people, they didn't notice how crabby we were, and before you knew it everyone was as happy as they were.”