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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 14f6a83 | Everything as strange and silent, and she seemed to be hundreds of miles away from anyone, but somehow she did not feel lonely at all. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 43151f4 | meant to give a new impulse to the race--to rouse human creatures to new moods, to thrust them into places where they see new things. Men and women are being dragged out of their self-absorbed corners and stirred up and shaken. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 7911438 | The youngest youngster vibrates with the shock of cannon firing, even though the sound may not be near enough to be heard," answered Coombe. "We're all vibrating unconsciously. We are shuddering consciously at the things we hear and are mad to put a stop to, before they go further." | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| a8106f7 | whole monstrosity growing more huge and throwing out new and more awful tentacles every day. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 90552ac | 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!" | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 8c49f5b | and there she was standing on the grass, which seemed to have turned green, and with the sun pouring down on her and warm sweet wafts about her and the fluting and twittering and singing coming from every bush and tree. She clasped her hands for pure joy and looked up in the sky and it was so blue and pink and pearly and white and flooded with springtime light that she felt as if she must flute and sing aloud herself | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 4b92785 | shyd dr hr chyzy rwHy wjwd drd khh my twnd bdwn hych Sdyy b rwH dygr Sjbt khnd. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 50da9c5 | cold?" inquired" | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 90e8785 | One frightfully hot morning, when she was about nine years old, she awakened feeling very cross, and she became crosser still when she saw that the servant who stood by her bedside was not her Ayah. "Why did you" | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| e37a77b | I Shall Live Forever--and Ever--and Ever!" -" | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| b55c9ff | interesting to | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 9635f86 | Solo muy de vez en cuando se puede estar seguro de que se va a vivir para siempre jamas, y esa es una de las curiosidades de la vida. A veces sucede cuando uno se levanta al amanecer, ese momento de meliflua solemnidad, y se sale al jardin y se queda uno alli quieto y solo; y se levanta mucho la mirada, mas y mas arriba, y se observa como muda de color el palido cielo azul, sonrojandose, como va sucediendo lo insolito y maravilloso, hasta q.. | the-secret-garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| 4d3ce6a | as the plans of march made by great generals in | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 46fb91a | was looked at askance, and that in the bearing of each member of the group there was a defiance of the general opinion. Roxholm sat on his horse somewhat apart from this group watching it, his kinsman and | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| ff92ad7 | So she began to feel a slight interest in Dickon, and as she had never before been interested in any one but herself, it was the dawning of a healthy sentiment. When | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| d478fdb | She opened the door of the room and went into the corridor, and then she began her wanderings. It was a long corridor and it branched into other corridors and it led her up short flights of steps which mounted to others again. There were doors and doors, and there were pictures on the walls. Sometimes they were pictures of dark, curious landscapes, but oftenest they were portraits of men and women in queer, grand costumes made of satin and .. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 4c2d2f7 | There doesn't seem to be no need for no one to be contrary when there's flowers an' such like, | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| c1d37e4 | One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live for ever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender, solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvellous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and on.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 10ae5a8 | Dickon, and Dickon brought his tame animals, and, if you'll credit it, sir, out of doors he | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 59e0faa | Thoughts -- just mere thoughts -- are as powerful as electric batteries -- as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 6c4348a | THE SECRET GARDEN | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 1c02f8d | We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain- but England we love. | european-travel travel | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| d82f3cd | beautiful." From" | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| fbfcb1b | In India she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. The fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 0cddeb8 | servants | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| c1eb12e | all. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 58f425f | ten to one | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| c994b28 | Pig! Pig! Daughter of Pigs!" she said, because to call a native a pig is the worst insult of all." | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| e8378a5 | often thought that you had just the kind of commonplace gifts that a host of commonplace people want to find at their service. An old servant of mine who lives in Mortimer Street | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 4b7facc | really. But such a nice thing has happened. I have had such a delightful invitation for the first week in August." "I'm sure you'll enjoy it, miss," said Jane. "It's so hot in August." | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 0c3d2a0 | She was a friendly creature, and lived a life so really isolated from any ordinary companionship that her simple little talks with Jane and Mrs. Cupp were a pleasure to her. The Cupps were neither gossiping nor intrusive, and she felt as if they were her friends. Once when she had been ill for a week she remembered suddenly realising that | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| f801371 | in a still, delicious room, with the summer morning sunshine | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 69ce054 | Cose assai sorprendenti possono accadere a chi, avendo nella mente un pensiero sgradevole e scoraggiante, abbia il buonsenso di accorgersene e scacciarlo via in tempo sostituendolo con un altro pensiero piacevole e ottimista. Due cose non possono occupare contemporaneamente lo stesso posto. La dove coltivi la rosa, ragazzo mio, Non puo crescere il cardo. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 23c55ac | Las dos peores cosas que le pueden suceder a un nino es no salirse nunca con al suya, o salirse siempre con ella. Susan Sowerby | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| f8772f9 | was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Her father had held a position under the English Government and had always been busy and ill himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people. She had not wanted a little girl at all, and when Mary was born she handed her | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 3a14815 | dark faces | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 3c2ad37 | Mistress Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells, And marigolds all in a row. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 20d87f6 | So are you, | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 2ffe1b2 | to speak to her. He was interested in his roses (which, she heard afterward, were to be sent to town to an invalid friend), | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| a68e16e | fond of driving and the brown cob was a beauty, she felt that she was being given a treat on a level with the rest of her ladyship's generous hospitalities. She drove well, and her straight, strong figure showed to much advantage on the high seat of the cart. Lord Walderhurst himself commented on her as he | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 297d2fd | Lady Maria's charity-knitting which she had taken up. Emily was so gratified that she found conversation easy. She did not realise that at that particular | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 89f88d1 | One of the strange things about living in the world is that is only now and then that one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 0e46aae | She herself could not have explained the reasons for her silence; | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 4a5483e | Perhaps when her eyes closed the sultriness of the night had changed to the momentary freshness of the turning dawn, | Frances Hodgson Burnett |