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“It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.”
― Secret Garden
― Secret Garden
“Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.”
― A Little Princess
― A Little Princess
“Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
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“Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage.
"It makes me feel as if something had hit me," Sara had told Ermengarde once in confidence. "And as if I want to hit back. I have to remember things quickly to keep from saying something ill-tempered.”
― A Little Princess
"It makes me feel as if something had hit me," Sara had told Ermengarde once in confidence. "And as if I want to hit back. I have to remember things quickly to keep from saying something ill-tempered.”
― A Little Princess
“When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in--that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies.”
― A Little Princess
― A Little Princess
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