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That he should actually let her — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Am one of the ugliest children I ever saw. She is beginning — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Poor little thin, sallow, ugly Mary - she actually looked almost pretty for a moment. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

All women are princesses , it is our right. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

If you tell stories, you like nothing so much as to tell them to people who want to listen. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

She had begun to wonder why she had never seemed to belong to anyone — Frances Hodgson Burnett

There doesn't seem to be no need for no one to be contrary when there's flowers an' such like, — Frances Hodgson Burnett

A body 'as to move gentle an' speak low when wild things is about. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were real. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Yorkshire word and means spoiled and — Frances Hodgson Burnett

It will be like a story from the Arabian Nights," he said. "Only an Oriental could have planned it. It does not belong to London fogs. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

When people had the cholera it seemed that they remembered nothing but themselves. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I don't know who it is," she said; "but somebody cares for me a little. I have a friend. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

She IS too fat," said Lavinia. "And Sara is too thin. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

The mere fact of her sufferings and adventures made her a priceless possession. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

He's been spoiled 'til salt won't save him. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

side with his head up in the air and his eyes full of laughter walked as strongly and steadily as any boy in Yorkshire - Master Colin. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

She had never seen a child who sat so still without doing anything; — Frances Hodgson Burnett

THE SECRET GARDEN — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Sara saw that privately she could not help hoping very much that they would all be black, and would wear turbans, — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Perhaps when her eyes closed the sultriness of the night had changed to the momentary freshness of the turning dawn, — Frances Hodgson Burnett

dream - the real - real dream. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

So taking it, she stood among the dried, withered things and looked in tender regret at them. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I am going to," answered — Frances Hodgson Burnett

You said th' Magic was in my back. Th' doctor calls it rheumatics. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart — Frances Hodgson Burnett

If I go on talking and talking ... and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

The air was full of spices... A Little Princess — Frances Hodgson Burnett

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Mistress Mary Quite Contrary — Frances Hodgson Burnett

She would never tell him and he could stay in his room and never get any fresh air and die if he liked! — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Little Princess Little Lord — Frances Hodgson Burnett

It was a long corridor and it branched into other corridors and it led her up short flights of steps which mounted to others again. There — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Don't let us make it tidy," said Mary anxiously. "It wouldn't seem like a secret garden if it was tidy. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

to speak to her. He was interested in his roses (which, she heard afterward, were to be sent to town to an invalid friend), — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I won't have dull people, she used to say, I'm dull myself. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

The stillness seemed to hold her and she paused to hear and feel it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

How dare you think? — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Justice is mercy's highest self. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

How does thee like thyself? — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?" he said, stroking her hair.
"No," she answered. "I know you by heart. You are inside my heart. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Whole monstrosity growing more huge and throwing out new and more awful tentacles every day. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?" ...
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine ... — Frances Hodgson Burnett

To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Them as is not wanted scarce ever thrives. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

As long as one has a garden, one has a future. As long as one has a future, one is alive. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

alcoves, and once or twice he sat down — Frances Hodgson Burnett

That is the Magic. Being alive is the Magic - being strong is the Magic. The Magic is in me - the Magic is in me. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Dickon, and Dickon brought his tame animals, and, if you'll credit it, sir, out of doors he — Frances Hodgson Burnett

One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Whatever comes cannot alter one thing. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

A person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Two lads an' a little lass just lookin' on at th' springtime. I warrant it'd be better than doctor's stuff. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Victorian and touchingly respectable. "I have been crying," confessed Lady Agatha. "I was afraid so, Lady Agatha," said Emily. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I'm lonely, she said. She had not known before that this was one of the things which made her feel sour and cross. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

They're a pair of young Satans. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Dickon says anything will understand if you're friends with it for sure, but you have to be friends for sure. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

It was so new and big and wonderful and such a heavenly color. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

She was a sweet, pretty thing and he'd have walked the world over to get her a blade o' grass she wanted. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

you are going to be sent home....
I 'm glad of it
but where's HOME ? — Frances Hodgson Burnett

stories belong to everybody. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Secret garden that morning, and in the midst of — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Into a passion and beat and kicked her, she looked only — Frances Hodgson Burnett

It's a lonely place. Sometimes it's the loneliest place in the world. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I know what it is to be hungry, and it is very hard when one cannot even pretend it away. -Sara — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Death is always sudden however long one waits. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us — Frances Hodgson Burnett

We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain- but England we love. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I don't like it, papa," she said. "But then I dare say soldiers - even brave ones - don't really like going into battle. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

That afternoon the whole world seemed to devote itself to being perfect and radiantly beautiful and kind to one boy. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Thoughts - just mere thoughts - are as powerful as electric batteries - as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Oh,Sara. It is like a story." "It is a story ... everything is a story. You are a story-I am a story. Miss Minchin is a story. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

The tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend it was anything but tea. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

She lay and listened to the quietness. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

There is naught a man or woman can not learn who hath the wit. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Things happen to people by accident. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Soldiers don't complain ... I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Color of gold. I have short black hair and green eyes; — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Her affection for everything she could love increased. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

It's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of and what you do. — Frances Hodgson Burnett