“Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is.”

“In that direction only pain lies.”

“It is possible, you know, to drift off to an unknown world and find happiness there. Maybe even more happiness than you've ever known before.”

“It's so unfair, I don't see whij I have to be stuck over here on this side of the fence where there's no one to talk to and no one to play with and you get to have dozens of friends are probably playing for hours every day, I'll have to speak to Father about it.”

“I think perhaps the adults we become are formed in childhood and there's no way around it.”

“It's the countryside. Perhaps this is our holiday home.”

“Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.”