"The Secret Garden" Quotes

Is the spring coming?

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.

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.

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.

That is the Magic. You can't tell. You don't know how it is done, or you'd do it yourself. It is the Magic in that that makes it Magic.

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

I'm sure there's Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us.

Might I have a bit of earth?

She was such a sour young woman, that it would be a pleasure to make her smile.

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—like electricity and horses and steam.