The Wind Through the Keyhole

The two most beautiful words in any language are

: I forgive

If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all

So cried his child’s heart, and then his child’s heart died a little. For that is also the way of the world

Sometimes, Tim thought, only the bald truth would do

in the proper hand, any object can be magic.

Women were different. They had larger hearts

It seemed to him that if the wrong man stepped into the marriage-loop with a woman, it was a noose instead of a ring.

‘Look not long at what’s offered, for every precious thing has wings and may fly away.’

The worst thing about wishes is that sometimes they come true

as we know—from stories and from life—the good years never last long