240 Quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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.

Soldiers don’t complain,” she would say between her small, shut teeth, “I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.

It was a long corridor and it branched into other corridors and it led her up short flights of steps which mounted to others again. There.

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.

Their eyes met with a singular directness of gaze. Between them a spark passed which was not afterwards to be extinguished, though neither of them knew the moment of its kindling...

She had never felt sorry for herself; she had only felt tired and cross, because she disliked people and things so much.

As she stood on the stone floor she looked a very small, odd little black figure, and she felt as small and lost and odd as she looked.

When a man is overcome by anger, he has a poisoned fever. He loses his strength, he loses his power over himself and over others. He throws away time in which he might have gained the end he desires. The is no time for anger in the world. – The Ancient One.

And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.