240 Quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

I wish I was friends with things," he said at last, "but I'm not. I never had anything to be friends with, and I can't bear people.

Then I will chant,” he said. And he began, looking like a strange boy spirit. “The sun is shining – the sun is shining. That is the Magic. The flowers are growing – the roots are stirring. That is the Magic. Being alive is the Magic – being strong is the Magic. The Magic is in me – the Magic is in me. It is in me – it is in me. It’s in every one of us.

The mere fact of her sufferings and adventures made her a priceless possession.

Qualunque cosa accada' disse lei, ' non potrà cambiare un fatto. Se sono una principessa così vestita di stracci, posso essere una principessa dentro. Sarebbe fin troppo facile essere una principessa vestita d'oro, ma che trionfo esserlo quando nessuno lo sa.

As she came closer to him she noticed that there was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about him, almost as if he were made of them. She liked it very much and when she looked into his funny face with the red cheeks and round blue eyes she forgot that she had felt shy.

She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her and was not the least afraid she would not like him, though he was only a common moor boy, in patched clothes and with a funny face and a rough, rusty-red head.

In the last century more amazing things were found out than in any century before. In this new century hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light.

Perhaps, the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen.