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

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.

People never like me and I never like people

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable, determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.

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.