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“Edgar Allen Poe wrote a story in 1838 about a shipwreck and how three survivors killed and ate the third man, Richard Parker; in 1884, in real life, this actually happened to a man called Richard Parker.”
― Adam Anderson, Fun Facts to Kill Some Time and Have Fun with Your Family: 1,000 Interesting Facts You Wish You Know

“Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“It was well said of a certain German book that ‘er lasst sich nicht lesen”—it does not permit itself to be read.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

“Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden