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“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The 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 Burnett A Little Princess

Variant: 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.
Source: A Little Princess

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

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

“People never like me and I never like people”

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

“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.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

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

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

“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.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

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

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Archie
The Secret Garden (1909)

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

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret 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…”

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

“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.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

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

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

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

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Variant: Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.
Source: The Secret Garden

“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.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

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

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

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

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

“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”

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

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

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden