When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen.
Two years before, a rival claimant to the throne had assassinated the then reigning king and his sons, and since then, bloody war and tumult had raged. The new king was a powerful man, and had a great...
Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.
Trataré de descubrir qué significa para mi la magia pues creo que hay magia en todo lo que nos rodea.
There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em.
The youngest youngster vibrates with the shock of cannon firing, even though the sound may not be near enough to be heard, answered Coombe. We're all vibrating unconsciously. We are shuddering conscio...
That’s almost like telling lies, she said. And lies—well, you see, they are not only wicked—they’re vulgar.
She was a friendly creature, and lived a life so really isolated from any ordinary companionship that her simple little talks with Jane and Mrs. Cupp were a pleasure to her. The Cupps were neither gos...
She herself could not have explained the reasons for her silence;
Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.
One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live for ever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the te...
Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable,...
It's a lonely place. Sometimes it's the loneliest place in the world.
It was a way of hers always to want to spring into any fray in which someone was made uncomfortable or unhappy.
It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.
It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine, and things pushing up and working under the earth,
In this new century hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light. At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, t...
I'm lonely, she said. She had not known before that this was one of the things which made her feel sour and cross.
He felt the scent and the golden glow of the sunset light as intensely as he felt the dead silence which reigned between himself and Hester almost with the effect of a physical presence.
Everything as strange and silent, and she seemed to be hundreds of miles away from anyone, but somehow she did not feel lonely at all.