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...
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...
Mistress Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells, And marigolds all in a row.
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...
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
It was a book about the French Revolution, and she was soon lost in a harrowing picture of the prisoners in the Bastille—men who had spent so many years in dungeons that when they were dragged out by...
It IS a story, said Sara. EVERYTHING'S a story. You are a story—I am a story. Miss Minchin is a story.
In the garden there was nothing which was not quite like themselves - nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to them - the immense, tender, terrible, heart-breaking b...
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...
If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
If you are four you are four,
I--haven’t any mamma in this school.Sara saw the danger signal, and came out of her dream. She took hold of the chubby hand and pulled her close to her side with a coaxing little laugh.I will be your...
I pretend I am a princess,so that I can try and behave like one.
I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things
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
Give her books, and she would devour them and end by knowing them by heart.