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.

As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.

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

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

I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses.

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.

"It's so beautiful!" she said, a little breathless with her speed. "You never saw anything so beautiful! It has come! I thought it had come that other morning, but it was only coming. It is here now! It has come, the Spring!"