“There was something friendly about Sara, and people always felt it.” — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important. — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Yes," answered Sara, nodding. "Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are. — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it… — 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
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
I shall live forever and ever and ever ' he cried grandly. 'I shall find out thousands and thousands of things. I… — 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
If Sara had been a boy and lived a few centuries ago, her father used to say, 'she would have gone about… — 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… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed… — 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
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
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
That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward. — 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
