She could not be made rude and malicious by the rudeness and malice of those about her.
She IS too fat, said Lavinia. And Sara is too thin.
Scientific people are always curious and I am going to be scientific.
Sara...looked long and hard at his face.
Sara sat upon the hearth-rug and told her strange things. She sat rather huddled up, and her green eyes shone and her cheeks flushed. She told stories of the voyage, and stories of India; but what fas...
Perhaps you can feel if you can't hear. Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted.
Nothing is more interesting than repressed emotion. The appearance of sardonic coldness and stoicism which has deceived you is but a hollow mockery; beneath it I secrete a maelstrom of impassioned fee...
Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.
No one will remember you.
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. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation...
Neither do I -- to speak truth. But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.
Nature having made her for a giver- had not the least idea what she made meant to poor Becky, and how wonderful a benefactor she seemed. If Nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, a...
My mamma has a diamond ring which cost forty pounds, she said. And it is not a big one, either. If there were mines full of diamonds, people would be so rich it would be ridiculous.Perhaps Sara will b...
Miss St. John! she exclaimed severely. What do you mean by such conduct? Remove your elbows! Take your ribbon out of your mouth! Sit up at once!Upon which Miss St. John gave another jump, and when Lav...
Las dos peores cosas que le pueden suceder a un niño es no salirse nunca con al suya, o salirse siempre con ella.Susan Sowerby
Lady Maria’s charity-knitting which she had taken up. Emily was so gratified that she found conversation easy. She did not realise that at that particular
Khi người ta sỉ nhục mình thì cách tốt nhất là mình chẳng nói một lời nào - cứ nhìn họ và suy nghĩ. Khi mình không nổi giận, người ta biết là mình mạnh mẽ hơn họ bởi vì mình đủ mạnh mẽ để kiềm chế cơn...
It was a mere matter of seeing common things together and exchanging common speech concerning them, but each was so strongly conscious of the other that no sentence could seem wholly impersonal. There...
It had never occurred to his honest, simple little mind that there were people who could forget kindnesses.
It IS a story, said Sara. EVERYTHING'S a story. You are a story—I am a story. Miss Minchin is a story.