“You know, school’s not all that great,” she said. “I’d much rather stay here at home with you and Papa.” - Aimi”

“As much as I would love to know what you know, I’d much rather eat your brain with a spoon.”

“Lord Teddie?" she said. "Will you stay for tea?""Rather!" said the carpet.”

“I had no idea what time I’d left, how I’d gotten home, who’d been up here, and how long he, she, or they had stayed. Another night, added to the hundreds that had gone before, shrouded in mystery. Really, when you thought about it, it was creepy. My own life was a secret to me.”

“You know that first night when we stayed together here in the cabin? As sick as we were, there was no place on earth I would have rather been then here with you.”

“It's like coming home," said Webster and he wasn't talking to the dog. "It's like you've been away for a long, long time and then you come home again. And it's so long you don't recognize the place. Don't know the furniture, don't recognize the floor plan. But you know by the feel of it that it's an old familiar place and you are glad you came.""I like it here," said. Ebenezer and he meant Webster's lap, but the man misunderstood."Of course, you do," he said. "It's your home as well as mine. More your home, in fact, for you stayed here and took care of it while I forgot about it.”