It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of… — 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
What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else. — 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
You either build up or you tear down. You either keep in the light where you can see, or you stand in… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
When I was at school my jography told me th' earth was shaped like a orange an' I found out before I… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with… — 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
