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 BurnettThere's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in—that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies. I scarcely ever do.
Frances Hodgson BurnettI am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us
Frances Hodgson BurnettIf I go on talking and talking...and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better.
Frances Hodgson Burnett