Quotes by : Frances Hodgson Burnett

Why, we are just the same - I am only a little girl like you. It's just an accident that I am not you,....

It's a lonely place. Sometimes it's the loneliest place in the world.

How is it that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps....

If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there....

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly....

The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked....

I wish I was friends with things," he said at last, "but I'm not. I never had anything to be friends....

Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.

We do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if it is not granted to us and then....