The Secret Garden

"Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, a thistle cannot grow." --one of my favorite quotes from the book

Of course, this is a classic and well known book. We LOVED it! The kids would ask me to read more! We throughly enjoyed and looked forward to reading this book at lunch time!

Quotes from the book:

"If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden."
— Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden)

"Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, a thistle cannot grow."

— Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden)

"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."
— Frances Hodgson Burnett

"It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before."
— Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden)

"Much more surprising things can happen to anyone 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."
— Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden)

"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."
— Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden)