I finally finished The Secret Garden. (So its not a secret anymore.) Sometimes I get in these ruts where it takes me a really long time to finish a book and for some reason this was one of them. Nevertheless, the book has some great quotes!
" 'Do you think he wants to die?' whispered Mary. 'No, but he wishes he'd never been born. Mother she says that's th' worst thing on earth for a child...' "
"She knew nothing about the pitifulness of people who had been ill and nervous and who did not know that they could control their tempers and need not make other people ill and nervous, too. When she had had a headache in India she had done her best to see that everybody else also had a headache or something quite as bad. And she felt she was quite right; but of course now she felt that Colin was quite wrong."
'....Perhaps they're growing fat on that.' 'Perhaps they are,' said Dr. Craven. 'Let them laugh.' "
"But then she said indulgently that humans were always more clumsy and slow than Eggs and most of them never seemed really to learn to fly at all. You never met them in the air or on treetops."
"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, then they see it can be done-then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago."
"Of course this was the wrong Magic-to begin by saying 'too late.' Even Colin could have told him that."
"...thoughts-are as powerful as electric batteries-as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in, you may never get over it as long as you live."
All quotes from, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett copyright 1911-1987
This is a wonderful read that teaches much (child or adult)!
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