“But after a few days spent almost entirely out of doors she wakened” — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“It was a way of hers always to want to spring into any fray in which someone was made uncomfortable or unhappy.” — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Everything as strange and silent, and she seemed to be hundreds of miles away from anyone, but somehow she did not feel… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Lady Maria’s charity-knitting which she had taken up. Emily was so gratified that she found conversation easy. She did not realise that… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?" he said, stroking her hair. "No," she answered. "I know you by heart. You… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“The very fact that she never made an impudent answer seemed to Miss Minchin a kind of impudence in itself.” — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“If she had cried and sobbed and seemed frightened, Miss Minchin might almost have had more patience with her. She was a… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“She was a friendly creature, and lived a life so really isolated from any ordinary companionship that her simple little talks with… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“The fact was, however, that she was always dreaming and thinking odd things and could not herself remember any time when she… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
In the garden there was nothing which was not quite like themselves - nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share
“What does it say?" asked my lord. "It says, 'Good-night, God keep you all the night!'--just what she used to say when we were… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share
Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share
“They were as real as Sara, and it was careless of them not to come out of the story shadowland and say, “Here I… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share
“One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts- just mere thoughts- are as powerful as… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share
“I've seen the spring now and I'm going to see the summer. I'm going to see everything grow here. I'm going to grow here… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share
“If she had cried and sobbed and seemed frightened, Miss Minchin might almost have had more patience with her. She was a woman who… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share
“I was thinking," she said. "Beg my pardon immediately," said Miss Minchin. "I will beg your pardon for laughing, if it was rude," said… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share
“She said that perhaps it was not so easy to be very rich; that if any one had so many things always, one might… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share
I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share
“You don't know that you are saying these things to a princess, and that if I chose I could wave my hand and order… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share
“Well, it is. One of her 'pretends' is that she is a princess. She plays it all the time—even in school. She says it… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share
“They know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage and they are not, and they… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share
