“Fair fresh leaves, and buds—and buds—tiny at first but swelling and working Magic until they burst and uncurled into cups of scent delicately spilling themselves over their brims and filling the garden air” - Danny, Nikki, Sadie and Ashton

"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine, and things pushing up and working under the earth," - Debbie, Gavin and Luci

"Never thee stop believin' in th' Big Good Thing an' knowin' th' world's full of it-- an' call it what tha' likes. Tha' wert singin' to it when I come into th' garden." - Frances, and Family

“She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.” - Michaella, John, and Baby

“Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.” - Georgina, Stephen, and Olivia

“When a man looks at the stars, he grows calm and forgets small things. They answer his questions and show him that his earth is only one of the million worlds. Hold your soul still and look upward often, and you will understand their speech. Never forget the stars.” - Marcello

“It's as wick as you or me” - Gillian and Victor

"That is the Magic. Being alive is the Magic—being strong is the Magic. The Magic is in me—the Magic is in me." - Kathleen

"I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us" - Victor and Patty

“And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.” - Michael, Casey, Mikey and Ollie.

“Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.” - Barbara, Ava and Grace

“Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places.” - Deontay

“One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands out and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun--which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so. And one knows it sometimes when one stands by oneself in a wood at sunset and the mysterious deep gold stillness slanting through and under the branches seems to be saying slowly again and again something one cannot quite hear, however much one tries. Then sometimes the immense quiet of the dark blue at night with the millions of stars waiting and watching makes one sure; and sometimes a sound of far-off music makes it true; and sometimes a look in someone's eyes.” -Marcello

“thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison.” - Patty

“As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.” - Gillian and Victor