People never like me and I never like people
Frances Hodgson BurnettSara!" she cried, aghast. "Mamma Sara!" She was aghast because the attic was so bare and ugly and seemed so far away from all the world. Her short legs had seemed to have been mounting hundreds of stairs.
Frances Hodgson BurnettSometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places.
Frances Hodgson BurnettTags: friends magic secrets garden
She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.
Frances Hodgson BurnettTags: books stories things invention beautiful
When I was at school my jography told as th' world was shaped like a orange an' I found out before I was ten that th' whole orange doesn't belong to nobody. No one owns more than his bit of a quarter an' there's times it seems like there's not enow quarters to go round. But don't you - none o' you - think as you own th' whole orange or you'll find out that you're mistaken, an' you won't find it out without hard knocks.
Frances Hodgson BurnettTags: secret-garden
She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of, and what you do.
Frances Hodgson BurnettTwo worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.
Frances Hodgson BurnettTags: children
I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sence enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us - like electricity and horses and steam.
Frances Hodgson BurnettTags: magic
Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.
Frances Hodgson BurnettTags: magic
You said th' Magic was in my back. Th' doctor calls it rheumatics.
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