Mary Quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett

9 Mary quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Frances Hodgson Burnett’s nine brief reflections on Mary bring a novelist’s gentle voice to the subject. The selection is small, but each line feels like a warm, literary whisper.

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Might I," quavered Mary, "might I have a bit of earth?

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“I'm growing fatter," said Mary,”

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Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

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However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.

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“himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people.…

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“was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Her father had…

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When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever…

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“When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever…

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Listen to th' wind wutherin' round the house," she said. "You could bare stand up on the moor if you was out…

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“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…

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“If she had cried and sobbed and seemed frightened, Miss Minchin might almost have had more patience with her. She was a woman who…

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“I was thinking," she said. "Beg my pardon immediately," said Miss Minchin. "I will beg your pardon for laughing, if it was rude," said…

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“She said that perhaps it was not so easy to be very rich; that if any one had so many things always, one might…

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I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things…

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“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…

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“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…

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“They know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage and they are not, and they…

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“Tom's Cabin, and she spent many hours acting out”

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... justice is mercy's highest self.

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