Overcrowding and poverty, that defied description, as
[Mary] did not know that going outside was the best thing she could have done, and she did not know that, when she began to walk quickly or even run along paths and down the avenue she was stirring he...
Whats'ever 'appens to you -- whats'ever -- you'd be a princess all the same -- an' nothin' couldn't make you nothin' different.
There was something friendly about Sara, and people always felt it.
She never remembered seeing familiarly anything but the dark faces of her Ayah and the other native servants, and as they always obeyed her and gave her her own way in everything, because the Mem Sahi...
She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself. She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beau...
Sara went to it and sat down. She was a queer child, as I have said before, and quite unlike other children. She seldom cried. She did not cry now. She laid her doll, Emily, across her knees, and put...
Nature having made her for a giver — had not the least idea what she meant to poor Becky, and how wonderful a benefactor she seemed. If Nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and s...
Mrs. Craven was a very lovely young lady, he had gone on rather hesitatingly. An' mother she thinks maybe she's about Misselthwaite many a time lookin' after Mester Colin, same as all mothers do when...
Mistress Mary Quite Contrary
Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing.
Innocent little villages full of homes torn and trampled under foot and burned! the Duchess almost cried out. And worse things than that—worse things!
I can’t say the words. They’re so queer.
How is it that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Pe...
He had made himself believe that he was going to get well, which was really more than half the battle.
Everything is made out of Magic,
Do you understand everything birds say? said Mary. Dickon’s grin spread until he seemed all wide, red, curving mouth, and he rubbed his rough head. I think I do, and they think I do, he said. I’ve liv...
If He made us, He must know He is to blame when He has made us weak or evil. And He must understand why we have been so made, and when we throw ourselves into the dust before Him, and pray for help an...
Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart
You are going to be sent home....I 'm glad of it but where's HOME ?