The Secret Garden. Frances Hodgson Burnett (+ CD)

The Magic works best when you work, yourself.

"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've see the spring now and I'm going to see the summer. I'm going to see everything grow here. I'm going to grow here myself.

It was until afterward that Mary realized that the thing had been funny as well as dreadful - that it was funny that all the grown-up people were so frightened that they came to a little girl just because they guessed she was almost as bad as Colin himself.

Selfish people always say that. Anyone is selfish who doesn't do what they want.

Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.

The two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

Children are as good as arithmetic to set you finding out things.

Even a disagreeable little girl may be lonely.

And the 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 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.