Susan

“But this wish was vain, like so many others; and when she had schooled herself into this conviction, she turned with all her heart and strength to the life that lay immediately before her, and resolved to strive and make the best of that.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell

“She had just remembered a French fairy story she had once read called "Riquet a la Houppe." It had been about a poor hunchback and a beautiful princess, and it had made her suddenly sorry for Mr. Archibald Craven.”
― Francis Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“What a thing it is to have an unruly family!”
― Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, or The Roly-Poly Pudding

“He made up his mind to eat less, but unfortunately it was not possible to carry out this brilliant idea when he wakened each morning with an amazing appetite . . .”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden