She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her… — 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
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
“Might I,” quavered Mary, “might I have a bit of earth?” In her eagerness she did not realize how queer the words… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles. — 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
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
“When I was at school my jography told as th' world was shaped like a orange an' I found out before I… — 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