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Information About The Secret Garden
Name of Book : The Secret Garden
Author : Frances Hodgson Burnett
Genre : Children's novel
Pages : 375
Language : English
Country : United State and United Kingdom
Publication date : 1911
Publisher : Frederick A. Stokes ; William Heinemann
Quotes From The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
1. “ 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. It seemed almost like being shut out of the world in some fairy place. ”
— The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
2. “ Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen. ”
— The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
3. “ In secret places we can think and imagine, we can feel angry or sad in peace. There is something to be said for just being, without worrying about offending anyone. ”
— The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
4. “ Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden — in all the places. ”
— The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
5. “ I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden. ”
— The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
6. “ Perhaps out of pure heavenly goodness the spring came and crowned everything it possibly could into that one place. ”
— The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
7. “ I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we do not have sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us. ”
— The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
8. “ That is the Magic. Being alive is the Magic—being strong is the Magic. The Magic is in me—the Magic is in me. ”
— The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
9. “ As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive. ”
— The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
10. “ If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. ”
— The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
11. “ It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of climbing roses which were so thick that they were matted together. ”
— The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
12. “ That afternoon the whole world seemed to devote itself to being perfect and radiantly beautiful and kind to one boy. ”
— The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
13. “ When a man looks at the stars, he grows calm and forgets small things. They answer his questions and show him that his earth is only one of the million worlds. Hold your soul still and look upward often, and you will understand their speech. Never forget the stars. ”
— The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
14. “ She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind. ”
— The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
15. “ At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can’t be done, then they see it can be done — then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. ”
— The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
16. “ hen new beautiful thoughts began to push out the old hideous ones, life began to come back to him, his blood ran healthily through his veins and strength poured into him. ”
— The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
17. “ You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious. ”
— The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
18. “ Where you tend to a rose my lad, a thistle cannot grow. ”
— The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
19. “ I shall get well! I shall get well!” he cried out. “Mary! Dickon! I shall get well! And I shall live forever and ever and ever! ”
— The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
20. “ She walked away, slowly thinking. She had begun to like the garden just as she had begun to like the robin and Dickon and Martha’s mother. She was beginning to like Martha, too. That seemed a good many people to like—when you were not used to liking. ”
— The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett