Frances Hodgson Burnett: Trending quotes

“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.”

“She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.”

“People never like me and I never like people”

“People never like me and I never like people," she thought. "And I never can talk as the Crawford children could. They were always talking and laughing and making noises.”

“She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.”

“I don't know who it is," she said; "but somebody cares for me a little. I have a friend.”

“One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.”

“And this, my lovely child, is your garden.”

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”

“Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"…
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…”

“Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.”

“I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses.”

“It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.”

“Where you tend a rose my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”

“Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people… Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.”

“And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.”

“However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.”

“I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us”

“Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.”