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

—Frances Hodgson Burnett

“She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself." ”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess 

“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.”

—Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.”

—Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.” ”

— - Frances Hodgson Burnett (from A Little Princess)
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