Novel · Children's literatureHe saw clearly how plain and simple—how narrow, even—it all was; but clearly, too, how much it all meant to him, and the special value of some such anchorage in one's existence. He did not at all want to abandon the new life and its splendid spaces, to turn his back on sun and air and all they offered him and creep home and stay there; the upper world was all too strong, it called to him still, even down there, and he knew he must return to the larger stage. But it was good to think he had this to come back to, this place which was all his own, these things which were so glad to see him again and could always be counted upon for the same simple welcome.Kenneth GrahameThe Wind in the Willows · 1908★ 6.9
Novel · Children's literatureAfter all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.Kenneth GrahameThe Wind in the Willows · 1908★ 3.6
Novel · Children's literatureBut Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, and can recapture nothing but a dim sense of the beauty of it, the beauty! Till that, too, fades away in its turn, and the dreamer bitterly accepts the hard, cold waking and all its penalties.Kenneth GrahameThe Wind in the Willows · 1908★ 3.5
Novel · Children's literatureSecrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to.Kenneth GrahameThe Wind in the Willows · 1908★ 3.5
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