Magic is in her just as it is in Dickon," said Colin. "It makes her think of ways to do things - nice things.

Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart.

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

Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.

But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.

She looked into the staring glass eyes and complacent face, and suddenly a sort of heartbroken rage seized her. She lifted her little savage hand and knocked Emily off the chair, bursting into a passion of sobbing- Sara who never cried.

At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite Manor. She had felt as if she had understood a robin and that he had understood her; she had run in the wind until her blood had grown warm; she had been healthily hungry for the first time in her life; and she had found out what it was to be sorry for someone.