But he was quite wrong, for the moon was not afraid, and there was no pit she was going down into, for there were no sides to it, and a pit without sides to it is not a pit at all.

Diamond, however, had not been out so late before in all his life, and things looked so strange about him!--just as if he had got into Fairyland, of which he knew quite as much as anybody; for his mother had no money to buy books to set him wrong on the subject.

I have seen this world--only sometimes, just now and then, you know--look as strange as ever I saw Fairyland.

But I confess that I have not yet seen Fairyland at its best.

I am always going to see it so some time.