The House at Pooh Corner
1928
The House at Pooh Corner is the second and final collection of stories from the Hundred Acre Wood, and arguably the most quietly profound. A.A. Milne writes with a tenderness that reveals itself differently depending on when you read it: as a child, you see snow games and bounces and a very long story about an Expotition. As an adult, you begin to notice the melancholy threads woven through the gentle humor, the way Christopher Robin's adventures with his friends start to feel like goodbye. Here Pooh and Piglet build Eeyore a house to shelter him from the cold. Here Tigger arrives, irrepressibly bouncy, and learns there are some things Tiggers simply cannot do. Here the smallest acts of kindness matter more than grand adventures. What makes this book endure is its radical gentleness in a world that rarely rewards it. It is for anyone who needs to remember that being small and slow and simply friends with someone can be enough.
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“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered."Yes, Piglet?""Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.””
— A. A. Milne
“Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.””
— A. A. Milne
“But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.””
— A. A. Milne
“No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.””
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“Promise you won't forget me, ever. Not even when I'm a hundred.””
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“And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.””
— A. A. Milne
“But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there... and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.””
— A. A. Milne
“What do you like doing best in the world, Pooh?""Well," said Pooh, "what I like best-" and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called. And then he thought that being with Christopher Robin was a very good thing to do, and having Piglet near was a very friendly thing to have; and so, when he had thought it all out, he said, "What I like best in the whole world is Me and Piglet going to see You, and You saying 'What about a little something?' and Me saying, 'Well, I shouldn't mind a little something, should you, Piglet,' and it being a hummy sort of day outside, and birds singing.""I like that too," said Christopher Robin, "but what I like best is Nothing.””
— A. A. Milne
“They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.””
— A. A. Milne
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