Frances Hodgson Burnett: Likeness

“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.”

“People never like me and I never like people”

“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…”

“I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one.”

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

“To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.”