It's so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said, 'Wouldn't you rather be a sparrow? — 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 scream out: ‘Oh, a horrid rat!’ I shouldn’t like people to scream and jump and say: ‘Oh, a… — 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 am — tell about me.” But they did not — which was their fault and not mine. People who live in the story one is writing ought to come forward at the beginning and tap the… — 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 electric batteries- as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet… — 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 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
