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
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
Magic is in her just as it is in Dickon," said Colin. "It makes her think of ways to do things -… — 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
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
Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess… — 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
"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
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
Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"... "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling… — 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
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
