The Secret Garden Quotes

“Oh, what a queer house this is!" Mary said. "What a queer house! Everything is a kind of secret.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“I used always to be tired. When I dig I'm not tired at all. I like to smell the earth when it's turned up [...] There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“Then I will chant,” he said. And he began, looking like a strange boy spirit. “The sun is shining – the sun is shining. That is the Magic. The flowers are growing – the roots are stirring. That is the Magic. Being alive is the Magic – being strong is the Magic. The Magic is in me – the Magic is in me. It is in me – it is in me. It’s in every one of us.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden