She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself. — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“It sounded like something in a book and it did not make Mary feel cheerful. A house with a hundred rooms, nearly… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“I do not know whether many people realize how much more than is ever written there really is in a story— how… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“It sounds nicer than it seems in the book," she would say. "I never cared about Mary, Queen of Scots, before, and… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Sara, who snatched her lessons at all sorts of untimely hours from tattered and discarded books, and who had a hungry craving… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“I do not know whether many people realize how much more than is ever written there really is in a story —… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
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 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
“This novel was in a sense developed in stages. First published as a series in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1887 as Sara… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
