“Why, we are just the same - I am only a little girl like you. It's just an accident that I am… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Papa won’t be very long now,” she said. “May we talk about the lost little girl?” “I don’t think I could talk… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“She was such a little girl that one did not expect to see such a look on her small face. It would… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“The same day, he took Sara out and bought her a great many beautiful clothes—clothes so grand and rich that only a… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people.… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Her father had… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Oh, Donald,” (this was Guy Clarence’s name), Janet exclaimed alarmedly, “why did you offer that little girl your sixpence? I’m sure she… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“She stopped and listened to him and somehow his cheerful, friendly little whistle gave her a pleased feeling--even a disagreeable little girl… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“I--haven’t any mamma in this school.” Sara saw the danger signal, and came out of her dream. She took hold of the… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“She opened the door of the room and went into the corridor, and then she began her wanderings. It was a long… — 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
