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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.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
Tags: writing, inspiration, craft

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She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
Tags: things, stories, invention, books, beautiful
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.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess
Tags: truths, reading, humour, books
She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess
Tags: reading, princess, books
Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden
Tags: parenting, parenthood, motherhood, learning, knowledge, children, childhood, arithmetic
They never sat up all night with Trouble, Peter Piper used to say. And I told him they were quite right. If you make a fuss over trouble and put it to bed and nurse it and give it beef tea and gruel, you can never get rid of it
— Frances Hodgson Burnett The Racketty-Packetty House
Tags: wonder, whimsy, magic, life-lessons, hopeful, happy, fairies
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