Frances Hodgson Burnett Inspirational Quotes (53)

People never like me and I never like people, she thought. And I never can talk as the Crawford children could. They were always talking and laughing and making noises.

death is always sudden however long one waits.

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.

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.