E. Nesbit said this quote

There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.

~ E. Nesbit

It's an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done.

~ E. Nesbit

There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue had never done

~ E. Nesbit

Robert explained how much simpler it was to pay money for things than to exchange them as the people were doing in the market. Later on the soldier gave the coins to his captain, who, later still, showed them to Pharaoh, who of course kept them and was much struck with the idea. That was really how coins first came to be used in Egypt. You will not believe this, I daresay, but really, if you believe the rest of the story, I don't see why you shouldn't believe this as well.

~ E. Nesbit