There was something friendly about Sara, and people always felt it.
Frances Hodgson BurnettIf I go on talking and talking...and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better.
Frances Hodgson BurnettIf Sara had been a boy and lived a few centuries ago, her father used to say, 'she would have gone about the country with her sword drawn, rescuing and defending everyone in distress. She always wants to fight when she sees people in trouble.
Frances Hodgson BurnettThe mere seeing of Miss Sara would have been enough without meat pies. If there was time only for a few words, they were always friendly, merry words that put heart into one...Sara--who was only doing what she unconsciously liked better than anything else, Nature having made her for a giver--had not the least idea what she meant to poor Becky, and how wonderful a benefactor she seemed.
Frances Hodgson BurnettThat's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.
Frances Hodgson BurnettSoldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.
Frances Hodgson BurnettYou see, now that trials have come, they have shown that I am NOT a nice child. I was afraid they would. Perhaps... that is what they were sent for... I suppose there MIGHT be good in things, even if we don't see it.
Frances Hodgson BurnettNever did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.
Frances Hodgson BurnettMots clés reading books humour truths
It's true," she said. "Sometimes I do pretend I am a princess. I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one.
Frances Hodgson BurnettI dare say it is rather hard to be a rat," she mused. "Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out, 'Oh, a horrid rat!' I shouldn't like people to scream and jump and say, 'Oh, a horrid Sara!' the moment they saw me. And set traps for me, and pretend they were dinner.
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