Beautiful lines from children's books

This one ...

A book called The Toymaker.
She made it with love, for she had not forgotten.
Beautiful ...

I love these lines from Polar Express -

At one time most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found one Christmas that she could no longer hear its sweet sound. Though I've grown old the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe.

It makes me howl every Christmas. The thought that one DC does not believe in Santa now and soon the other one won't - wah!

Just yesterday I was discussing 'Peepo" with my 18 year old!

'He see the landing mirror with its rainbow rim,
and a mother, with a baby, just like him'

Can't even say it without crying.

And the Selfish Giant -

'And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, 'You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise'. I wouldn't be able to read the end of this book for crying!

And Heaven by Nicholas Allan. Where Dill the dog looks down from his cloud at his replacement and says, 'I bet he thinks he's in heaven already'. So beautiful.

Lots already mentioned here, Charlotte's Web, Railway Children, Paper Dolls, Dogger.

Also “The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle

Also on a less literary note, Charlie and Lola: I am too extremely small for school:
"She wasn't all alone all by herself, she was hopping off home with somebody else."

And the end of the Red Woollen Blanket: "Sometime during her first day at school she lost the last threads of her blanket.... it could've been anywhere, and she hardly even missed it."

My kids all think I'm mad when I cry at books but they are used to it now, and they just take over reading when I start welling up and can't read any more.

"When The World Was Waiting For You" can't read it to my babies without sobbing, It's adorable ❤

This thread is beautiful. Winnie the Pooh always makes me cry.

Anything AA Milnes wrote makes me sob. He is so talented and has such a way with words.

"Life is a journey to be experienced, not a problem to be solved."

What a gorgeous thread. Will definitely check out some of these books; the velveteen rabbit sounds ideal for DD2! Paper dolls is one of my very faves.

I am also just planning my leavers' assembly, some of these will help, so thanks!

"But when the day ends and the sun starts to fall,
I do what I do best of all,
I find somewhere soft, somewhere cosy and small,
And there's where I like to curl up in a ball"

Sometimes I Like to Curl Up in a Ball by Charles Fuge & Vicki Churchill.

The bit at the end of Anne of Green Gables: Matthew saying that it wasn't a boy who won the Avery scholarship. "It was a girl. My girl. My girl that I'm proud of."

"Butterflies live only short lives. They flower and flutter for just a few glorious weeks and then they die. To see them you have to be in the right place at the right time and that's how it was with the butterfly lion".

From the Butterfly Lion, by Michael Morpurgo. I read it to my cousin when his big sister was in hospital we both burst into tears at that bit.

'Down the trail, out of the darkness of the bush and into the light of the slanting bars of sunlight, joggling along with his peculiar nautical roll, came--Ch. Boroughcastle Brigadier of Doune.

Boroughcastle Brigadier's ragged banner of a tail streamed out behind him, his battle-scarred ears were upright and forward, and his noble pink and black nose twitched, straining to encompass all that his short peering gaze was denied. Thin and tired, hopeful, happyand hungry, his remarkable face alight with expectationthe old warrior was returning from the wilderness. Bodger, beautiful for once, was coming as fast as he could.'

The end of The Incredible Journey about 2 dogs and a cat who find their way home is a total sobfest for me.

Mine have already been mentioned, but definitely oh the places you'll go and the paper dolls where she has a kind grandma in her memories chokes me, and the whole of little monster, especially the line "my beautiful, wonderful, glorious child, you light up my world"

YY to the bit in No Matter What that Misti quoted

and so many from Winnie the Pooh

'If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you'

'I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time'

'We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see'

Sob.
Damn autocorrect!

It never gets lost, never fades, never ends…

if you’re working…

or playing…

or sitting with friends.

You can dance ’til you’re dizzy…

paint ’til you’re blue…

There’s no place, not one,
that my love can’t find you.
Son.

Ok Kavvlar has just finished me off 😭

Came on to say The Giving Tree

And the boy loved the tree
And she loved a little boy
Very, very much
Even more than she loved herself

Reminds me of my lovely DS

"Tell you all what," he said sleepily. "We're too utterly exhausted to talk much about it now, and anyway you're all making such a row that we don't sup'ose we'll ever be able to rest an' recover our strength... Anyway, we've thought of something jolly important we want for Christmas... Shall we tell you what it is?"
"All right, we will," came Mary's clear little voice. "We shall want a Christmas tree."
And from the hearth came the thud of Mackie's tail as he saluted the two voices he loved best.

Wings over Witchend by Malcolm Saville. Ds was crying when he made me reread those lines-earlier in the book Mackie is apparently dead.

"Over Cloudesly Castle the moon hung low. It shone through the open roof upon the backs of many horses, upon the soft short grass and the piles hay, upon the fallen stones of the great ruined walls and upon the men who were set to guard it. It shone upon a man who lay listening in a dried out ditch, knowing that his hours of freedom were as many as the hours of darkness, and upon the quiet cordon that ringed the Walland Marsh.
"Rising higher, it was the full bright heart of the night, and if old Jim Decks stirred restlessly as its light disturbed his sleeping, who was to know how many times the moon had called his ancestors to perils on the Marsh and on the water."

Cargo of Horses by Monica Edwards

This poem below by AA Milne always makes me cry, particularly the last 2 verses

Spring Morning

Where am I going? I don't quite know.
Down to the stream where the king-cups grow-
Up on the hill where the pine-trees blow-
Anywhere, anywhere. I don't know.

Where am I going? The clouds sail by,
Little ones, baby ones, over the sky.
Where am I going? The shadows pass,
Little ones, baby ones, over the grass.

If you were a cloud, and sailed up there,
You'd sail on water as blue as air,
And you'd see me here in the fields and say:
"Doesn't the sky look green today?"

Where am I going? The high rooks call:
"It's awful fun to be born at all."
Where am I going? The ring-doves coo:
"We do have beautiful things to do."

If you were a bird, and lived on high,
You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by,
You'd say to the wind when it took you away:
"That's where I wanted to go today!"

Where am I going? I don't quite know.
What does it matter where people go?
Down to the wood where the blue-bells grow-
Anywhere, anywhere. I don't know.

Misty I must have read it a dozen times before I managed to get through it without filling up. Different parts gets me on different days depending on what is happening - I have a very precious Little Monster who we waited a very long time to meet.

"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something.
That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics or know your honour trampled in the sewer of baser minds.
There is only one thing for it then - learn....Look what a lot of things there are to learn." - TH White. The Once and Future King

grumblebumble I love that book too I Love you Little Monster and bought it when ds and I weren't getting on, so this line made me cry: "there's so much to do in thr day, that its hard to sitdown and to make ebough time to say all of the things i should say. but somehow now that you're sleeping, and everything's quiet and calm, the words seem to be much more easy to say. And big laid a soft hand on my arm"

DC just look at me strangely when I get emotional whilst reading a book!

nothing to add, but thank you to OP and everybody who has left something. Such a nice evening read :)

Oh, spider! I loved Jinny so much.

' A little boy and his bear will always be playing...' gets me every time! Also the end of Tom's Midnight Garden. Another one is the end of Watership Down where Elahrairah comes for Hazel ' It seemed to Hazel that he would not be needing his body any more, so he left it lying on the edge of the ditch...'. So many kindred spirits on this thread.