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 BurnettSoldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.
Frances Hodgson BurnettWhat you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else.
Frances Hodgson BurnettOf 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 BurnettSometimes 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