“Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.”

“It's true," she said. "Sometimes I do pretend I am a princess. I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one.”

“I don't like it, papa," she said. "But then I dare say soldiers - even brave ones - don't really like going into battle.”

“If I go on talking and talking...and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better.”

“I pretend I am a princess,so that I can try and behave like one.”

“Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.”

“The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man.”