1. “I Shall Live Forever—and Ever—and Ever!” –”
2. “locations have been”
3. “But the calm had brought a sort of courage and hope with it. Instead of giving way to thoughts of the worst, he actually found he was trying to believe in better things.”
4. “She would never tell him and he could stay in his room and never get any fresh air and die if he liked!”
5. “Everything as strange and silent, and she seemed to be hundreds of miles away from anyone, but somehow she did not feel lonely at all.”
6. “When I lie by myself and remember I begin to have pains everywhere and I think of things that make me begin to scream because I hate them so. If there was a doctor anywhere who could make you forget you were ill instead of remembering it I would have him brought here.”
7. “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.”
8. “He had made himself believe that he was going to get well, which was really more than half the battle.”
9. “That afternoon the whole world seemed to devote itself to being perfect and radiantly beautiful and kind to one boy.”
10. “…and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay parties.”
11. “willpower”
12. “As she came closer to him she noticed that there was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about him, almost as if he were made of them. She liked it very much and when she looked into his funny face with the red cheeks and round blue eyes she forgot that she had felt shy.”
13. “She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.”
14. “Don’t let us make it tidy,” said Mary anxiously. “It wouldn’t seem like a secret garden if it was tidy.”
15. “As she came closer to him she noticed that there was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about him, almost as if he were made of them.”
16. “And the sun fell warm upon his face like a hand with a lovely touch.”
17. “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.”
18. “And they both began to laugh over nothing as children will when they are happy together. And they laughed so that in the end they were making as much noise as if they had been two ordinary healthy natural ten-year-old creatures—instead of a hard, little, unloving girl and a sickly boy who believed that he was going to die.”
19. “So long as I know what’s expected of me, I can manage.”
20. “I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us.”
21. “Never thee stop believin’ in th’ Big Good Thing an’ knowin’ th’ world’s full of it – and call it what tha’ likes. Tha’ wert singin’ to it when I come into t’ garden.”
22. “One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.”
23. “on his five-mile walk. When she slipped through the door under the ivy, she saw he was not working”
24. “One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live.”
25. “You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you’re too curious.”
26. “Of course there must be lots of magic in the world, but people don’t know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make it happen.”
27. “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.”
28. “When I was going to try to stand that first time Mary kept saying to herself as fast as she could, ‘You can do it! You can do it!’ and I did. I had to try myself at the same time, of course, but her Magic helped me—and so did Dickon’s. Every morning and evening and as often in the daytime as I can remember I am going to say, ‘Magic is in me! Magic is making me well! I am going to be as strong as Dickon, as strong as Dickon!’ And you must all do it, too. That is my experiment Will you help, Ben Weatherstaff?””
29. “It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled.”
30. “It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of climbing roses which were so thick that they were matted together.”
31. “I’m lonely,” she said. She had not known before that this was one of the things which made her feel sour and cross.”
32. “She frowned because she remembered that her father and mother had never talked to her about anything in particular. Certainly they had never told her things.”
33. “by the time she was six years old she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived.”
34. “You said th’ Magic was in my back. Th’ doctor calls it rheumatics.”
35. “opened her eyes in the morning it was because a young housemaid had”
36. “In secret places we can think and imagine, we can feel angry or sad in peace. There is something to be said for just being, without worrying about offending anyone.”
37. “Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way — or always to have it.”
38. “She had begun to wonder why she had never seemed to belong to anyone”
39. “To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman”
40. “But of course he is doing now of his own free will what we could not make him do before.”
41. “You learn things by saying them over and over and thinking about them until they stay in your mind forever and I think it will be the same with Magic. If you keep calling it to come to you and help you it will get to be part of you and it will stay and do things.”
42. “Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don’t know what it is like or how to make it.”
43. “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.”
44. “How does tha’ like thysel’?” she inquired, really quite as if she were curious to know.”
45. “Might I,” quavered Mary, “might I have a bit of earth?.”
46. “I don’t want to be queer, and I’m not going to be. I’ll shall stop being queer if I go every day to the garden. There is magic in there…”
47. “Even Mary had found out that one of Colin’s chief peculiarities was that he did not know in the least what a rude little brute he was with his way of ordering people about. He had lived on a sort of desert island all his life and as he had been the king of it he had made his own manners and had had no one to compare himself with.”
48. “It is clear to me that magic works best when you try hard at something”
49. “the gray rain-storm which looked as if it would go on forever and ever. She watched it so long and steadily that the grayness grew heavier and heavier before her eyes and she fell asleep.”
50. “One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now.”
51. “The sun shone down for nearly a week on the secret garden. The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut her in no one knew where she was. It seemed almost like being shut out of the world in some fairy place.”
52. “My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they’re rich and important.”
53. “The afternoon was dragging towards its mellow hour. The sun was deepening the gold of its lances, the bees were going home and the birds were flying past less often.”
54. “Do roses quite die when they are left to themselves?”
55. “Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world,” he said wisely one day, “but people don’t know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.”
56. “Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.”
57. “I shall live forever and ever and ever ‘ he cried grandly. ‘I shall find out thousands and thousands of things. I shall find out about people and creatures and everything that grows – like Dickon – and I shall never stop making Magic. I’m well I’m well.”
58. “One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands out and throws one’s head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one’s heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun — which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years.”
59. “However many years she lived, Mary always felt that ‘she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow’.”
60. “thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison.”
61. “Colin flushed triumphantly. He had made himself believe that he was going to get well, which was really more than half the battle, if he had been aware of it. And the thought which stimulated him more than any other was this imagining what his father would look like when he saw that he had a son who was as straight and strong as other fathers’ sons.”
62. “Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.”
63. “Much more surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place.”
64. “People never like me and I never like people”
65. “When new beautiful thoughts began to push out the old hideous ones, life began to come back to him, his blood ran healthily through his veins and strength poured into him.”
66. “She did not know that this was the best thing she could have done, and she did not know that, when she began to walk quickly or even run along the paths and down the avenue, she was stirring her slow blood and making herself stronger by fighting with the wind which swept down from the moor. She ran only to make herself warm, and she hated the wind which rushed at her face and roared and held her back as if it were some giant she could not see. But the big breaths of rough fresh air blown over the heather filled her lungs with something which was good for her whole thin body and whipped some red color into her cheeks and brightened her dull eyes when she did not know anything about it.”
67. “And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.”
68. “The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off – and they are nearly always doing it.”
69. “But she was inside the wonderful garden, and she could come through the door under the ivy any time, and she felt as if she had found a world all her own.”
70. “That is the Magic. Being alive is the Magic—being strong is the Magic. The Magic is in me—the Magic is in me.”
71. “If you keep doing it every day as regularly as soldiers go through drill we shall see what will happen and find out if the experiment succeeds. You learn things by saying them over and over and thinking about them until they stay in your mind forever and I think it will be the same with Magic. If you keep calling it to come to you and help you it will get to be part of you and it will stay and do things.”
72. “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
73. “She stopped and listened to him and somehow his cheerful, friendly little whistle gave her a pleased feeling—even a disagreeable little girl may be lonely, and the big closed house and big bare moor and big bare gardens had made this one feel as if there was no one left in the world but herself.”
74. “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.”
75. “Two things cannot be in one place. “Where, you tend a rose, my lad / A thistle cannot grow.””
76. “alcoves, and once or twice he sat down”
77. “She was a sweet, pretty thing and he’d have walked the world over to get her a blade o’ grass she wanted.”
78. “Magic is in her just as it is in Dickon,” said Colin. “It makes her think of ways to do things – nice things.”
79. “She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another.”
80. “In the garden there was nothing which was not quite like themselves – nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to them – the immense, tender, terrible, heart-breaking beauty and solemnity of Eggs. If there had been one person in that garden who had not known through all his or her innermost being that if an Egg were taken away or hurt the whole world would whirl round and crash through space and come to an end… there could have been no happiness even in that golden springtime air.”
81. “Mother says as th’ two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way—or always to have it. She doesn’t know which is th’ worst.”
82. “Where you tend a rose my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
83. “At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done–then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.”
