“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
When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Pig! Pig! Daughter of Pigs!" she said, because to call a native a pig is the worst insult of all.” — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Mother says as th' two worst things as can happen to a child is never have his own way-- or always to… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
You see, now that trials have come, they have shown that I am NOT a nice child. I was afraid they would.… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Perhaps I have not really a good temper at all, but if you have everything you want and everyone is kind to… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
The truth is that when one is still a child-or even if one is grown up- and has been well fed, and… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
When I was at school my jography told me th' earth was shaped like a orange an' I found out before I… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“You see,” said Sara, “that is for his wife and children. He is very nice. He only eats the little bits. After… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
And they both began to laugh over nothing as children will when they are happy together. And they laughed so that in… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Are you sure the child was left at a school in Paris? Are you sure it was Paris?” “My dear fellow,” broke… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Perhaps I have not really a good temper at all, but if you have everything you want and everyone is kind to… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“You are nicer than I am,” said Sara. “I was too proud to try and make friends. You see, now that trials… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
People never like me and I never like people," she thought. "And I never can talk as the Crawford children could. They… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Sara went to it and sat down. She was a queer child, as I have said before, and quite unlike other children.… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things. — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“She had seen other children go away, and had heard their fathers and mothers talk about the letters they received from them.… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“When Miss Minchin sent her sister, Miss Amelia, to see what the child was doing, she found she could not open the… — 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
