Might I," Quavered Mary, "might

I Pretend I Am A Princess,so That I Can Try And Behave Like One.

Folks Who Make Such A Fuss About Their Rights Turn Them Into Wrongs Sometimes. -- (from Behind The White Brick)

Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

One Of The Strange Things About Living In The World Is That It Is Only Now And Then One Is Quite Sure One Is Going To Live Forever And Ever And Ever.

The Difficulty Will Be To Keep Her From Learning Too Fast And Too Much. She Is Always Sitting With Her Little Nose Burrowing Into Books. She Doesn't Read Them, Miss Minchin; She Gobbles Them Up As If She Were A Little Wolf Instead Of A Little Girl. She Is Always Starving For New Books To Gobble, And She Wants Grown-up Books--great, Big, Fat Ones--french And German As Well As English--history And Biography And Poets, And All Sorts Of Things. Drag Her Away From Her Books When She Reads Too Much.