Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.

She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her and was not the least afraid she would not like him, though he was only a common moor boy, in patched clothes and with a funny face and a rough, rusty-red head.

I pretend I am a princess,so that I can try and behave like one.

It's so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said, 'Wouldn't you rather be a sparrow?

I 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

The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man.

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