When a man is overcome by anger, he has a poisoned fever. He loses his strength, he loses his power over himself and over others. He throws away time in which he might have gained the end he desires. The is no time for anger in the world. - The Ancient One

If 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.

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.

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true too . . . she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived.

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

Her affection for everything she could love increased.