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“Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

“Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

“What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

“To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in, you may never get over it as long as you live.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett

“There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

“I don't like it, papa," she said. "But then I dare say soldiers - even brave ones - don't reallygoing into battle.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

“Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

“Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?" he said, stroking her hair.
"No," she answered. "I know you by heart. You are inside my heart.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

“But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

“My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

“All women are princesses, it is our right.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

“Oh, how she did love that queer, common boy!”

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

“Never thee stop believin' in th' Big Good Thing an' knowin' th' world's full of it - and call it what tha' likes. Tha' wert singin' to it when I come into t' garden.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

“Yes," answered Sara, nodding. "Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess