She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman

Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.

Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.

we do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if 'tis not granted to us, and then we kneel and kneel and believe, because we must have someone to ask help from.

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

She did not know that this was the best thing she could have done, and she did not know that, when she began to walk quickly or even run along the paths and down the avenue, she was stirring her slow blood and making herself stronger by fighting with the wind which swept down from the moor.