Aceeași substanță ne compune pe toți - copacul de deasupra capului, piatra de sub noi, pasărea, fiara, steaua, una suntem cu toții și cu toții ne înd… - P. L. Travers

the shape, tossed and bent under the wind, lifted the latch of the gate, and they could see that it belonged to a woman, who was holding her hat on with one hand and carrying a bag in the other.

Mary Poppins walked down the garden path and opened the gate. Once outside in the Lane, she set off walking very quickly as if she were afraid the afternoon would run away from her if she didn’t keep up with it. At the corner she turned to the right and then to the left, nodded haughtily to the Policeman, who said it was a nice day, and by that time she felt that her Day Out had begun.

When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.