E. B. White amerikai

Csak nagy ritkán vet utunkba a sors olyasvalakit, aki igaz barátunkká lesz.

202. oldal

The quickest way to spoil a friendship is to wake somebody up in the morning before he is ready.

33. oldal, Charlotte

The world is a wonderful place when you're young.

17. oldal, Escape

Az élet különösen gazdag és nyugalmas, amikor valaminek a világra jöttére várunk.

193. oldal

„Congratulations! ” shouted Wilbur. „How many goslings are there? I can only see one.”
„There are seven,” said the goose.
„Fine!” said Charlotte. „Seven is a lucky number.”
„Luck had nothing to do with this,” said the goose. „It was good management and hard work.”

Chapter 6

The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructible.
New York is not a capital city – it is not a national capital or a state capital. But it is by way of becoming the capital of the world.

54-55. oldal (The Little Bookroom, 2011)

    – Hová megy apa a fejszével?

(első mondat)

Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will.

10. fejezet

Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty – everything I don't like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?" Wilbur was merely suffering the doubts and fears that often go with finding a new friend. In good time he was to discover that he was mistaken about Charlotte.

5. fejezet

The pig couldn't help being born small, could it? If I had been very small at birth, would you have killed me?

3. oldal, Before breakfast