“Poor little thin, sallow, ugly Mary—she actually looked almost pretty for a moment.” — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen. — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
As long as one has a garden, one has a future. As long as one has a future, one is alive. — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive. — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Their eyes met with a singular directness of gaze. Between them a spark passed which was not afterwards to be extinguished, though… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
When a man is overcome by anger, he has a poisoned fever. He loses his strength, he loses his power over himself… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“The fact was, however, that she was always dreaming and thinking odd things and could not herself remember any time when she… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“She was such a little girl that one did not expect to see such a look on her small face. It would… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“At this moment she was remembering the voyage she had just made from Bombay with her father, Captain Crewe. She was thinking… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Do you mean to tell me,” she cried out, “that he left nothing! That Sara will have no fortune! That the child… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Just at that moment Ermengarde almost jumped off the bed, she was so startled by a sound she heard. It was like… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Where is she?” Sara paused a moment. Because she had been told that her mamma was in heaven, she had thought 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… — 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
