Beautiful lines from children's books

[NettJarrp]

Just came across this line in DD's current favourite bedtime story:
"Then Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh walked hand in hand down the forest path and they said goodbye. So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest a little boy and his bear will always be playing."
I'm in tears. It's times like this that I wish that I could share these feelings with DD's father (I'm widowed - not a thread about that though).

What lines in children's stories pull at your heart strings?

bike mine too. I was slightly upset to have a nephew and a half brother called Daniel so I couldn't use it for my son. I love the description of a real smile being in the eyes.

My most proud mum moment so far, was on World Book Day last year. DS was Danny (complete with dog-toy pheasant and cardboard spanner) and had to stand at the front in assembly for having such a good costume.

This is a really lovely and wonderful thread. I'm looking forward to bedtime stories with my little ones tonight now. Thank you OP, thinking of you.

I have no idea why but I love this from Alice In Wonderland

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”

I'd never heard of the paper dolls, just looked it up on the internet, it's beautiful, definitely going to buy it!

Little women makes me weep every time with 'I was never like the rest of you, making plans about the great things I'd do, I never saw myself as anything much, just shy, stupid little Beth, who's only use was at home. Why does everyone want to go away? I love being home, but I don't like being left behind. Now I'm the one going ahead, No one can stop God if He wants me, But I'm afraid I shall be homesick for you... even in heaven'

Please, oh please, can this thread be moved to classics MNHQ?

Yes, classics is a must!

Hallo folks,

We're going to move this to Classics, then! It's 9.16 and I am already teary which is some sort of mod record, surely.

Winnie the Pooh - every, every time. "How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard"

OK I read a lot to my 1 year old but haven't read him any of these books yet. However I'm pregnant and hormonal and Sat here in tears just at the quotes, so I don't think I'd be able to read them to him haha

Cheating slightly with this but the ending of the little mermaid. We saw the show in Florida a few years ago when Dd's were 6 and three.
This bit made dh quite emotional and he's not like that at all. Now each time I see it I shed a little tear

Triton: She really does love him, doesn't she, Sebastian?

*Sebastian: Well, it's like I always say, Your Majesty. Children got to be free

to lead their own lives.

Triton: You - always say that? (sighs) Then I guess there's just one problem

left.

Sebastian: And what's that, Your Majesty?

Triton: How much I'm going to miss her*. (He turns her into a human and she goes

to meet Eric. They kiss which fades into kiss on wedding day. Everyone is

happy. Sebastion is attacked by Louis. He beats Louis up and returns to the

sea.)

Sebastion: Yes, Thank you, thank you. (Ariel and Triton hug.)

Ariel: I love you Daddy.

The thoughtfox, I was going to quote that bit of The Velveteen Rabbit and say it was the best wedding reading I think I've ever heard... perhaps I was at yours...

Beth's death, Tolly singing, yes, yes. Of course my daddy, my daddy. Can't read the Oscar Wildes, too heart breaking.

In Towers in the Mist, the death of Giles, the brilliant oldest son, who suddenly looks as if he sees something pleasing, recognises it and dies.

Glad there's someone else who's read Understood Betsy.

The death of Jack the Bulldog in On the Shores of Silver Lake.

The Big Ugly Monster and the Stone Rabbit . Is a beautiful , lovely book
Even seeing the front cover again makes me weepy .

HEAR and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild. The Dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was wild, and the Pig was wildas wild as wild could beand they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.

I love the Just So stories, and I can still hear my mother's voice when I read them.

This gets me every time x

Duck, Death & The Tulip is a must read and full of wisdom. It explains how death is nothing to fear and that it follows all of us, in a rather sad and lonely way

That sounds really shit I know but the book is amazing and a must read

From T.H. White's 'The Sword in the Stone':
"He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usual way, leaving him to leap along in their wake, jumping at meanings, guessing, clutching at known words, and chuckling at complicated jokes as they suddenly dawned. He had the glee of the porpoise then, pouring and leaping through strange seas."