Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 poison.”

“Whatever comes...cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside.”

“And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.”

“As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.”

“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 happen.”

“Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.”

“Everything's a story. You are a story. I am a story.”

“It's a strange thing, but it is true that the more you give, the more you have.”

“To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body.”

“Is the spring coming? ... It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine.”