Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

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.

However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.

You see, now that trials have come, they have shown that I am NOT a nice child. I was afraid they would. Perhaps... that is what they were sent for... I suppose there MIGHT be good in things, even if we don't see it.

death is always sudden however long one waits.

That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.

It's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always.