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
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
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
I don't know who it is," she said; "but somebody cares for me a little. I have a friend. — 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
She looked into the staring glass eyes and complacent face, and suddenly a sort of heartbroken rage seized her. She lifted her… — 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
Imagine, if you can, what the rest of the evening was like. How they crouched by the fire which blazed and leaped… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
"It's so beautiful!" she said, a little breathless with her speed. "You never saw anything so beautiful! It has come! I thought… — 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
Perhaps you can feel if you can’t hear,” was her fancy. “Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
On the hob was a little brass kettle, hissing and boiling; spread upon the floor was a warm, thick rug; before the… — 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
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
