Frances Hodgson Burnett quotes - page 3

You can't marry this Archibald. He's a gloomy, miserable cripple that hides himself away in that horrible house. You've said it yourself, you can't believe you love him and neither can I! (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart. View quote
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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. View quote
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Oh, how she did love that queer, common boy! View quote
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It's true," she said. "Sometimes I do pretend I am a princess. I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one. View quote
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If nature has made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that. View quote
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She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind. View quote
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And this, my lovely child, is your garden. View quote
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Perhaps if her mother had carried her pretty face and her pretty manners oftener into the nursery Mary might have learned some pretty ways too. View quote
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In India she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. The fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little. View quote
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Eh!” he said, and as he crumbled the rich black soil she saw he was sniffing up the scent of it, "there doesn't seem to be no need for no one to be contrary when there's flowers an' such like, an' such lots o' friendly wild things runnin' about makin' homes for themselves, or buildin' nests an' singin' an' whistlin', does there? (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
Do you think he wants him to die?” whispered Mary. "No, but he wishes he'd never been born. Mother she says that's th' worst thing on earth for a child. Them as is not wanted scarce ever thrives. View quote
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You are a selfish thing!” cried Colin. "What are you?” said Mary. "Selfish people always say that. Any one is selfish who doesn't do what they want. View quote
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Then something began pushing things up out of the soil and making things out of nothing. One day things weren't there and another they were. I had never watched things before and it made me feel very curious. Scientific people are always curious and I am going to be scientific. I keep saying to myself, 'What is it? What is it?' It's something. It can't be nothing! View quote
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