How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

— A.A. Milne

I don’t feel very much like Pooh today," said Pooh." There there," said Piglet. "I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.

— A.A. Milne

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.

— A.A. Milne

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!

— A.A. Milne

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

— A.A. Milne

I might have known,” said Eeyore. “After all, one can’t complain. I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said ‘Bother!’. The Social Round. Always something going on.

— A.A. Milne

In the language of the day it is customary to describe a certain sort of book as “escapist” literature. As I understand it, the adjective implies, a little condescendingly, that the life therein depicted cannot be identified with the real life which the critic knows so well in W.C.1: and may even have the disastrous effect on the reader of taking him happily for a few hours out of his own real life in N.W.8. Why this should be a matter for regret I do not know; nor why realism in a novel is so much admired when realism in a picture is condemned as mere photography; nor, I might add, why drink and fornication should seem to bring the realist closer to real life than, say, golf and gardening.

— A.A. Milne

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.

— A.A. Milne

It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

— A.A. Milne

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?

— A.A. Milne