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Frances Hodgson Burnett
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„Yorkshire’s th’ sunniest place on earth when it is sunny.“
„It’s so easy that when you begin you can’t stop. You just go on and on doing it always.“
„She looked into the staring glass eyes and complacent face, and suddenly a sort of heartbroken rage seized her. She lifted her little savage hand and knocked Emily off the chair, bursting into a passion of sobbing- Sara who never cried.“
„If nature has made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.“
„It’s true,” she said. “Sometimes I do pretend I am a princess. I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one.“
„I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.“
„That’s what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.“
„Soldiers don’t complain… I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.“
„You and me are a good bit alike. We’re neither of us good lookin’, and we’re both as sour as we look.“
„You can’t marry this Archibald. He’s a gloomy, miserable cripple that hides himself away in that horrible house. You’ve said it yourself, you can’t believe you love him and neither can I!“
„Yes,” answered Sara, nodding. “Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.“
„My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they’re rich and important.“
„If Sara had been a boy and lived a few centuries ago, her father used to say, ‘she would have gone about the country with her sword drawn, rescuing and defending everyone in distress. She always wants to fight when she sees people in trouble.“
„Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.“
„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.“
„I don’t like it, papa,” she said. “But then I dare say soldiers – even brave ones – don’t reallygoing into battle.“
„Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.“
„Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?” he said, stroking her hair.”No,” she answered. “I know you by heart. You are inside my heart.“
„Oh, how she did love that queer, common boy!“
„What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else.“
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