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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 728717e | A large house left deserted by those who have filled its rooms with emotions and life, expresses a silence, a quality all its own. A house unfurnished and empty seems less impressively silent. The fact of its devoidness of sound is upon the whole more natural. But carpets accustomed to the pressure of constantly passing feet, chairs and sofas which have held human warmth, draperies used to the touch of hands drawing them aside to let in day.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| d5d32ea | She lay and listened to the quietness. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| d7b2870 | And as she lay and listened, it was as if she were not only listening but waiting for something. She did not know at all what she was waiting for, but waiting she was. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| d8cad59 | The stillness seemed to hold her and she paused to hear and feel it. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| a9da7b9 | her chest began to rise and fall with a quickening of her breath, and her breath quickened because her heart fluttered--as if with her haste. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| c574118 | So taking it, she stood among the dried, withered things and looked in tender regret at them. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 3fa2b89 | She knew now why she had come up here. It was so that she might feel like this--as if she was upheld far away from things--as if she had left everything behind--almost as if she had fallen awake again. There was no perfume in the air, but all was still and sweet and clear. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 4de9248 | She had been a smart, lovely, laughing and lovable thing, full of pleasure in the world, and now she was so stricken and devastated that she seemed set apart in an awful lonely world of her own. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 84e6f95 | side with his head up in the air and his eyes full of laughter walked as strongly and steadily as any boy in Yorkshire--Master Colin. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 61b8855 | bein' on th' stepladder lookin, over th' wall. But I'll tell | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 76487a9 | The afternoon was dragging towards its mellow hour. The sun was deepening the gold of its lances, the bees were going home and the birds were flying past less often. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 57e397b | 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 over to the care of an Ayah, who was made to understand that if she wished to please the Mem Sahib she must keep the child out of sight as much as possible. So when | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 5181244 | puppies. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| af5106c | entirely out | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 80d0f80 | unceasingly | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| ca167e0 | If I was a princess-a real princess," she murmured, "I could scatter largess to the populace. But even if i am only a pretend princess, I can invent little things to do for the people. Things like this. She was just as happy as if it was largess. I'll pretend that doing things that people like is scattering largess. I've scattered largess." | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| c915b7b | am one of the ugliest children I ever saw. She is beginning | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 1f55d26 | overcrowding and poverty, that "defied description", as" | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 40c694a | had an active social life and enjoyed telling stories | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| b00243a | Tom's Cabin, and she spent many hours acting out | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 6a2e32e | color of gold. I have short black hair and green eyes; | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 3ff9ed9 | secret garden that morning, and in the midst of | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 431c818 | nothing, and Mr. Havisham kept her from suspecting | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| ec62440 | 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 | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 4ca41b7 | The very fact that she never made an impudent answer seemed to Miss Minchin a kind of impudence in itself. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 5f39db1 | Sara saw that privately she could not help hoping very much that they would all be black, and would wear turbans, | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 519cbeb | A body 'as to move gentle an' speak low when wild things is about. | wilderness | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| 76e6c1d | Bat ki chuyen gi xay ra," no noi, "cung khong the thay doi mot dieu. Neu minh la cong chua an mac rach ruoi thi minh van co the la mot cong chua trong tam hon. Se that de dang de lam mot cong chua neu minh mac quan ao dat vang, nhung luon la mot cong chua ma khong ai biet den lai la mot thang loi lon hon nhieu." | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 0bd96fb | that he should actually let her | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 1d880c4 | Por mas harapos y jirones que vista, en mi interior puedo seguir siendo una princesa. Maria Antonieta en prision, vestida de negro e insultada por su pueblo, tuvo mas altura que cuando todo iba bien en la corte de Versalles --seguia cavilando Sara --. Es facil parecer una princesa vistiendo ropajes de pano dorado, pero conducirse como tal sin que nadie lo sospeche, eso si que es un gran triunfo | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 93c7e21 | Lo considero un amigo, a veces sucede que se puede estimar a una persona aunque nunca se haya hablado con ella. Se las observa y se piensa en ellas, y se comparten sus preocupaciones. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 3a53bd7 | locations have been | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 2dc231b | Seminary | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 3521405 | It was so new and big and wonderful and such a heavenly color. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 75eed74 | He knew nothing of earls and castles; he was quite ignorant of all grand and splendid things; but he was always lovable because he was simple and loving. To be so is like being born a king. | Burnett Frances Hodgson | ||
| d168258 | How dare you think? | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 8809656 | has the | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| dcce1a1 | su petirrojo no se fuera de alli. Le hablo casi en un susurro. "!Bien, me has vencido!", se lo dijo tan" | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 7f718d3 | dream--the real--real dream. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 37066dd | as if | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| ae6684e | liked | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 9cc9a4a | This novel was in a sense developed in stages. First published as a series in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1887 as Sara Crewe, or What Happened at Miss Minchin's, it proved extremely popular and Burnett followed this with an equally popular dramatisation of the serial, re-named The Little Princess. Burnett was then persuaded to re-write the fictional version under the new name, whilst including the numerous amendments she had made to the story .. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| bee6662 | I do not know whether many people realize how much more than is ever written there really is in a story -- how many parts of it are never told -- how much more really happened than there is in the book one holds in one's hand and pores over. Stories are something like letters. When a letter is written, how often one remembers things omitted and says, "Ah, why did I not tell them that?" In writing a book one relates all that one remembers at.. | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| 0021eb6 | But after a few days spent almost entirely out of doors she wakened | Frances Hodgson Burnett |