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
Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
It's so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was… — 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
It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
She did not know that this was the best thing she could have done, and she did not know that, when she… — 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
As she came closer to him she noticed that there was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat,” she mused. “Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Listen to th' wind wutherin' round the house," she said. "You could bare stand up on the moor if you was out… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange… — 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
