The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut her in no one knew where she was....
If Nature has made you for 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 t...
And they put their arms round each other and kissed as if they would never let each other go.
Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me br...
Of course there must be lots of magic in the world but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them hap...
In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things have been discovered. In the last centurymore amazing things were found out than in any century before. In this new century hundreds o...
A lot of nice accidents have happened to me.
Nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to them--the immense, tender, terrible, heart-breaking beauty and solemnity of Eggs...if an Egg were to be taken away or hurt t...
Servants
They're a pair of young Satans.
She is always starving for new books to gobble,
She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.
One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts - just mere thoughts - are as powerful as electric batteries - as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as...
If you keep doing it everyday as regularly as soldiers go through drill, we shall see what will happend and find out if the experiment succeeds. You learn things by saying them over and over and think...
I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses.
But only be good, dear, only be brave, only be kind and true always, and then you will never hurt any one, so long as you live, and you may help many, and the big world may be better because my little...
Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.
THE SECRET GARDEN
Pig! Pig! Daughter of Pigs! she said, because to call a native a pig is the worst insult of all.
I'm growing fatter, said Mary,