The Secret Garden Quotes

“As she came closer to him she noticed that there was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about him, almost as if he were made of them. She liked it very much and when she looked into his funny face with the red cheeks and round blue eyes she forgot that she had felt shy.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true too . . . she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Perhaps, the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her and was not the least afraid she would not like him, though he was only a common moor boy, in patched clothes and with a funny face and a rough, rusty-red head.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett

“And delight reigned.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“...nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to them--the immense, tender, terrible, heart-breaking beauty and solemnity of Eggs...if an Egg were to be taken away or hurt the whole world would whirl round and crash through space and come to an end...”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“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. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett

“In the last century more amazing things were found out than in any century before. In this new century hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“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.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett

“December.
The days begin white and glittering with snow---on the roof, the branches of the sycamore, where a robin has taken up residence. It reminds Kate of Robin Redbreast from The Secret Garden---for so many years, her only safe portal to the natural world. Only now does she truly understand her favorite passage, memorized since childhood:
"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."
Often, before she leaves for work, she stand outside to watch the sun catch on the white-frosted plants, searching for the robin's red breast. A spot of color against the stark morning. Sometimes, while she watches it flutter, she feels a tugging inside her womb, as if her daughter is responding to its song, anxious to breach the membrane between her mother's body and the outside world.
The robin is not alone in the garden. Starlings skip over the snow, the winter sun varnishing their necks. At the front of the cottage, fieldfares---distinctive with their tawny feathers---chatter in the hedgerows. And of course, crows. So many that they form their own dark canopy of the sycamore, hooded figures watching.”
― Emilia Hart, Weyward

“Sólo muy de vez en cuando se puede estar seguro de que se va a vivir para siempre jamás, y ésa 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 jardín y se queda uno allí quieto y solo; y se levanta mucho la mirada, más y más arriba, y se observa cómo muda de color el pálido cielo azul, sonrojándose, cómo va sucediendo lo insólito y maravilloso, hasta que el Oriente casi le hace a uno clamar, y el corazón parece que cesara de latir ante la inexplicable, imperturbable majestad del sol naciente. Desde hace miles y miles de años, esto es lo que acontece cada mañana, y es entonces cuando durante un instante se sabe que uno va a vivir siempre.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“It was curious how much nicer a person looked when they smiled”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Illustrated Secret Garden: 100th Anniversary Edition with Special Foreword

“Surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, or just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose … a thistle cannot grow.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett

“It's this', she said. 'It's a secret garden, and I'm the only one in the world who wants it to be alive.”
― Francis Hodgson Burnett

“In the Garden of Healing ... The key point is the healing quality of Nature in the analogy of the long-forgotten garden once heroine Mary Lennox and her friends discover the door, find the key as well as the need for rejuvenation and start to bring it back to its former glory.

It’s a story of hope, renewal and the
rediscovery of humanity which is also so much needed in the bruised, battered and careworn world we find ourselves in today. I feel that ‘The Garden of Healing’ is a perfect fit for Forgive and for what we’re seeking to accomplish in this journey that we’re sharing together.”
― Roger Macdonald Andrew, Forgive: Finding Inner Peace Through Words of Wisdom