Quotes from work

The Secret Garden

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.”

“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'.”

“Might I," quavered Mary, "might I have a bit of earth?”

“So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage.”

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

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