Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Frances Hodgson Burnett More Quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett More Quotes From Frances Hodgson Burnett 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. Frances Hodgson Burnett rain spring fall All women are princesses , it is our right. Frances Hodgson Burnett little-princess princess 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. Frances Hodgson Burnett little-princess magic remember Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places. Frances Hodgson Burnett squirrels garden flower The mug from the washstand was used as Becky's tea cup, and the tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend that it was anything but tea. Frances Hodgson Burnett cups used tea She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. Frances Hodgson Burnett beautiful book facts Perhaps you can feel if you can’t hear,” was her fancy. “Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted, and don’t know why, when I am standing here in the cold and hoping you will get well and happy again. Frances Hodgson Burnett get-well wall doors The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off - and they are nearly always doing it. Frances Hodgson Burnett lovely wall ivy When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true too . . . she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived. Frances Hodgson Burnett selfish uncles children One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. Frances Hodgson Burnett strange forever world 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. Frances Hodgson Burnett likes garden world I shall live forever and ever and ever ' he cried grandly. 'I shall find out thousands and thousands of things. I shall find out about people and creatures and everything that grows - like Dickon - and I shall never stop making Magic. I'm well I'm well Frances Hodgson Burnett magic forever people 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. Frances Hodgson Burnett secret-garden magic-in-the-world people 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 Frances Hodgson Burnett overcoming desire men Oh,Sara. It is like a story." "It is a story...everything is a story. You are a story-I am a story. Miss Minchin is a story. Frances Hodgson Burnett missing stories And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles. Frances Hodgson Burnett miracle garden morning And they both began to laugh over nothing as children will when they are happy together. And they laughed so that in the end they were making as much noise as if they had been two ordinary healthy natural ten-year-old creatures—instead of a hard, little, unloving girl and a sickly boy who believed that he was going to die. Frances Hodgson Burnett girl boys children If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor Frances Hodgson Burnett kings mind beautiful 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. Frances Hodgson Burnett nice rain fall However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'. Frances Hodgson Burnett garden morning years
