“Mountains & low hills would enclose us, & gardens & woods & green spaces would surround us - And each pretty house… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Might I,” quavered Mary, “might I have a bit of earth?” In her eagerness she did not realize how queer the words… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles. — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't want to make it look like a gardener's garden, all clipped an' spick an' span, would you?" he said. "It's… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“But she was inside the wonderful garden, and she could come through the door under the ivy any time, and she felt… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Mistress Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With Silver Bells, and Cockle Shells, And marigolds all in a row.” — 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
The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man. — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“The magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man. I… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
As long as one has a garden, one has a future. As long as one has a future, one is alive. — 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
