“No, but I feel as if a big stone is pressing me here.”

“Heidi loudly wailed, "Oh I want to go home. What the poor snowhopper will do without me? Grandmother is waiting for me everyday. Poor Thistlefinch gets blows if Peter gets no cheese, and I must see the sun again when he says good-night to the mountains. How the eagle would screech if he saw all the people here in Frankfurt.”

“...if you take big steps and climb with all your little might!”

“Dont grieve any more, see I am coming up with you everyday now, and if there is anything the matter, you can come to me.”

“I'll always say my prayers... and if God doesn't answer them at once I shall know it's because He's planning something better for me.”

“We must never forget to pray, and to ask God to remember us when He is arranging things, so that we too may feel safe and have no anxiety about what is going to happen.”

“Heidi came running in, "Grandfather can the sun still laugh at me? she asked”