Quotes from workThe Secret Garden
The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911, after serialization in The American Magazine . Set in England, it is one of Burnett's most popular novels and seen as a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been made. The American edition was published by the Frederick A. Stokes Company with illustrations by Maria Louise Kirk , and the British edition by Heinemann with illustrations by Charles Heath Robinson.
“People never like me and I never like people”
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“She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.”
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“And this, my lovely child, is your garden.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden
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The Secret Garden (1909)
“Might I," quavered Mary, "might I have a bit of earth?”
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“So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage.”
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“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.
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